The Biden administration agreed Tuesday to limit workers' exposure to toxic silica dust, a common byproduct in U.S. mining ...
Stricter standards from the Mine Safety and Health Administration included monitoring dust exposure and providing health ...
Years of work by labor and health advocates is coming to a head this week as the federal Mine Safety and Health ...
Addressing a problem first identified 50 years ago, federal regulators say stricter new rules to limit miners' exposure to ...
Two loons swim with their chick on Clear Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in 2021. (Photo by Max ...
Tougher federal limits on miners’ exposure to toxic silica dust are creating a slew of compliance challenges for mine ...
Addressing a problem first identified 50 years ago, federal regulators filed new rules to limit miners’ exposure to silica ...
Silica dust exposure has long been linked with black lung cases in miners, and for decades leading health experts have ...
Silica dust is a known cause of black lung disease among coal miners. The new federal rule seeks to limit their exposure.
The Department of Labor recently released a new rule that significantly lowers how much silica dust is legally allowed inside ...
The final rule lowers the permissible exposure limit of respirable crystalline silica to 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air ...
Coal miners can breathe at least a small sigh of relief with the new federal rule that cuts their exposure to silica dust.