A chilling article in today's Pittsburgh Post Gazette drives another spike into coal industry attempts to portray their product as a source of "clean energy."
Headlined New Rules Aim to Curb Black Lung, But at What Cost the story reports on one of three recent meetings between coal mine operators and Joseph Main, U.S. assistant secretary of labor for mine safety and health. Main was holding the meetings in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and West Virginia, to explain a new, and controversial (at least to the industry) federal mining rule aimed at reducing coal dust in the mines and with it - black lung - a crippling and often fatal disease caused by repeated inhalation of fine particles of dust and rock generated in the mining process.
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