Federal regulation capping toxic airborne silica has been decades in the making. The delay has cost miners dearly.
Coal miners, including very young ones, have developed severe respiratory disease in recent decades due in part by silica ...
Tougher federal limits on miners’ exposure to toxic silica dust are creating a slew of compliance challenges for mine ...
The U.S. House passed bills on natural resources and land management showing Republican dissatisfaction with Democrats' ...
Addressing a problem first identified 50 years ago, federal regulators filed new rules to limit miners’ exposure to silica ...
Years of work by labor and health advocates is coming to a head this week as the federal Mine Safety and Health ...
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 ...
For years, advocates for mine safety have urged the federal government to adopt strict rules around the substance that has ...
Coal miners can breathe at least a small sigh of relief with the new federal rule that cuts their exposure to silica dust.
For miners and other stone cutters, silica is a serious health hazard. New rules announced on Tuesday set strict limits on ...
The Labor Department has issued a new rule intended to protect coal miners from poisonous silica dust that has contributed to ...