The Deadly Disease That Really Scares Coal Miners

For years, coal miners have occupied an outsized role in the national political discussion, how promises by politicians to restore a steadily shrinking coal industry affect miners’ political allegiances. Offend the miners and watch your election chances disappear; vow to bring back jobs and the state is yours.

“What’s happened is not a Trump moment or a Bernie moment or a progressive moment,” said Stephen Smith, at the time a progressive Democratic candidate for West Virginia governor, who joined the miners at the capitol. “What’s happening is an anti-establishment moment and that’s rational.” “What I can do is fill out a meeting request. It might not be today,” she said, taking his contact information as the miners crowded in the doorway. “His time is very limited.”

Over a half hour passed as the group waited patiently on the sidelines. But just before the meeting ended, Shott slipped out the back door. The miners were exasperated after getting the brush, but Whitt remains optimistic. Dennis Dixon worked in the mines until 1985 when he got injured. His wheezing voice reveals his years of labor in “low coal,” when he crawled into 28-inch holes through dust and muddy water.

they can be energy workers without the death. too bad the rich don't want to change.

they had to know that black lung disease comes from coal, but trump will praise the deaths as if what else could the rich men do, but allow poor men to kill themselves and our earth, what a wonderful speaker of lies, his cadence is a robot tone of death.

What coal miners need is to not mine coal, and instead be retrained to something they can work on that doesn't kill them. We have an entire interstate system that needs rebuilding, we don't need them mining materials for 19th century combustion engines.

ProudSocialist proustmalone “dissolved into one machine...” 🤔 it’s almost like... I’ve read this somewhere else...

Respirators..to filter out coal dust

Tax clean energy companies to foot the bill for black lung that miners developed while putting up windmills and installing solar panels presumably?

This isn't a both-sides issue. It's a Republican problem.

.realDonaldTrump we have a unified message that we want echoing all across America here it goes!!! “re-elect him baby”!!!! LeadRight GOP GOPChairwoman

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