"In April of last year, the Trump administration paused the enforcement of a rule designed to help protect coal miners from an aggressive form of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, commonly known as black lung disease, the primary cause of which is exposure to silica dust...This April, the Labor Department’s Mine Safety and Health Administration announced an indefinite delay in enforcement of the rule."
https://kffhealthnews.org/rural-health/coal-miners-black-lung-disease-silicosis-silica-dust-pneumoconiosis-trump-west-virginia/
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