WASHINGTON — Coal miners will be better protected from poisonous silica dust that has contributed to the premature deaths of thousands of mine workers from a respiratory ailment commonly known as black lung disease , the Labor Department said Tuesday as it issued a new federal rule on miners' safety., announced by Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su, cuts by half the permissible exposure limit for crystalline silica for an eight-hour shift.
“There are too many lives at stake to get this wrong, and we’ll do whatever we can to ensure that this rule provides the protection that miners deserve,'' Shelton said. Robinson, who lives in rural Nickelsville, Virginia, near the Tennessee line, said the mine safety office does not have enough staff or resources to adequately protect workers and their families.
“Until you see it and live with it, you don’t understand,” Vonda Robinson said. “And knowing what we’re looking at now -- miners being diagnosed at 32 – they’ll probably never see their children graduate or have grandchildren." Mary AltafferThe second day of jury selection for Donald Trump’s hush-money trial hadn’t even begun Tuesday when the former president embarked on his first angry tirade about his perpetual victimhood.After firing off a caps-lock-ridden missive against the judge presiding over his case, Trump arrived at the Manhattan courthouse and complained to reporters outside that he should be campaigning instead of being in court.
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