Over the weekend, the Charleston Gazette-Mail had an excellent story by Ken Ward, Jr. about black lung and the criminal trial of Don Blankenship: “Black Lung…
In a recent statement, the head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Joe Main, said that black lung is “widespread and underreported.“ Main…
On Friday, November 13, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued a published decision in Blue Mountain Energy v. Director, OWCP [Gunderson…
On November 6, 2015 in Eastern Associated Coal Corp. v. Director, OWCP [Toler], 805 F.3d 502 (4th Cir. 2015) (slip opinion available here), the U.S. Court…