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Study Uncovers Startling Number of Black Lung Cases in Coal Miners
Miners are contracting the disease with striking frequency and at younger ages than ever before. By Marissa Fessenden.
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Coal miner is a dead end job.
All to often, literally.
Startling... it’s as though there was is some kind of ... dare I say it- correlation between breathing in coal mine air and black lung disease
Unfortunately, there are no other alternatives. We have no other way of meeting our energy demands and no way of automating mining so some men are just going to have to be sacrificed for the greater good of running air conditioners in Arizona.