The uncertainty around the future of the black lung improvements that are contained within the Affordable Care Act continues. “Day one” has come and gone and…
Recently the U.S. Department of Labor increased by 1% the modest amount of money that disabled coal miners and their families who receive federal black lung…
The past week has not seen any concrete action regarding the Byrd Amendments. But like last week’s introduction of a proposed House Resolution by coalfield Republicans,…
Lately the black lung provisions that are within the Affordable Care Act—called the “Byrd Amendments”—have (rightly) been getting a lot of media attention. For example, there’s…