Howard Berkes
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 9 Aug
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And in fact...
a House Republican has already launched an attempt to block implementation of the new silica dust regulation, even though there's not even a final version of the proposal.
So it's critical to make the best case, but the proposed regulation undersells the potential benefits.
The proposal predicts that the new regulation will save just 63 coal miner lives and prevent just 244 cases of disease over 60 years.
Our latest survey of black lung clinics shows more than 4,000 cases of disease in the last decade.
They responded, but they did not explain.
Instead, they said in a statement that they would now consider the actual number of diseased and dying minors, and they said officials there are deeply disturbed by that.
Now, this is actually a work in progress.
The proposal is now under review.
A final regulation is likely months away, and we'll see if it actually incorporates what we've reported.
I keep thinking about a miner named Danny Smith, who was a lot like Mackie Branham, one of the youngest and sickest miners I've met.
Danny only worked 12 years underground.
He was diagnosed with complicated black lung at just age 39.
And when we visited with him at his home in eastern Kentucky in 2018, he was just trying to do something simple, mow his lawn.
But he had a hacking fit that forced him to stop.
He bent over.
He started coughing so bad that he was spitting up what looked like crusted bits of...
black paper with red streaks later his respiratory therapist told us that that was dead lung tissue that he was coughing up danny was taking his plight very hard
Danny Smith was 46 years old when we spoke with him in 2018, and he showed me then the burial plot that he'd picked out for himself in his family cemetery.
Danny and I have been communicating since then, most recently by text message
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