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26 Feb

Governor Moore promised to call a special session of the legislature to address the black lung issue

The campaign to have coal miner's pneumoconiosis (black lung) proclaimed a compensatory injury galvanized the West Virginia coalfields in the late 1960s. As coal mining expanded, more workers exhibited symptoms of "miner's asthma," as the disease ...

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