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New Studies Confirm A Surge In Coal Miners’ Disease

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New Studies Confirm A Surge In Coal Miners’ Disease

"More coal miners in central Appalachia have suffered the advanced stages of the deadly disease black lung than previous government research has found, and more miners working in the region today have earlier stages of the disease. Those are two of the findings in a bundle of studies released Tuesday and expected to be released soon, which focus on the epidemic of black lung disease first reported by NPR in 2016."

"It does really underscore that this is a real phenomenon," says Kirsten Almberg, an occupational health researcher at the University of Illinois, Chicago and co-author of a black lung study discussed Tuesday at a San Diego conference of the American Thoracic Society."

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Some former coal towns turn to nature tourism as a new economic driver

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Some former coal towns turn to nature tourism as a new economic driver

"There’s a national storyline about West Virginia and parts of Pennsylvania, and it goes something like this: As the steel and coal industries fade, small towns are dying out. But for the past twenty years, some entrepreneurs have quietly been working on a different narrative, one that harnesses the natural beauty in these areas to build the economy. About 10 years ago, after being downsized from a job in computer sales, Rod Darby wanted control of his career. He drew up a business plan for a pub and restaurant in West Newton, a small Pennsylvania town along the still-developing Great Allegheny Passage. The GAP bike trail, as its known, stretches 150 miles, from Pittsburgh to Cumberland, Maryland. Darby shopped his pub idea around."