Aluminum Plates For Deep Space Win W.Va. 'Coolest' Contest
Aluminum plates that helped keep astronauts on the Artemis II rocket safe won the first ever Coolest Thing Made In West Virginia competition.
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UMWA Demands Silica Dust Rules Be Implemented
The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) is demanding the immediate enforcement of federal silica dust protections in central Appalachian coal mines, in a statement released Thursday.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsFlags Flown At Half Staff For W.Va. Miners
Gov. Patrick Morrisey has ordered flags to be flown at half staff to honor the life of Steve Lipscomb, who died at the Rolling Thunder Mine in Nicholas County.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsEncore: The Rise of Black Lung, Inside Appalachia
This week on Inside Appalachia, black lung disease is back. In fact, it never went away. Now, younger and younger miners are living with a particularly nasty form of black lung disease. Regulators and the coal industry have known about the problem for decades — but they’ve been slow to respond. One reporter asks, “What would happen if thousands of workers in any other industry got sick and died just because of where they worked?”
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsHouse Judiciary Looks at Coal Jobs and Safety Act of 2015
House Judiciary took up a bill Tuesday that addresses mine safety. Senate Bill 357, also known as House Bill 2566, is the Coal Jobs and Safety Act of…
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Tomblin Hopes Feds Reconsider Black Lung Benefits Funding Cuts
Federal funds for black lung benefits in West Virginia were cut about 44 percent. The United States Department of Health and Human Services Black Lung…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsSubjects in UBB Film Work to Separate from Don Blankenship
Families of the victims are bracing for another anniversary of the Upper Big Branch Disaster; an explosion that ripped so violently through an underground…
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