U.S. to Limit Deadly Mining Dust as Black Lung Resurges
AA5B, They’ve been working on a safety rule limiting silica dust since 1996? The mind boggles
silence7, Workers can be replaced. Profits can’t.
Blaster_M, Progress stalled on the bill because no one in congress could pronounce or spell pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, leading to tragic delays in introducing the bill.
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givesomefucks, In case anyone is surprised:
We’ve got record breaking fossil fuel production in America, and while we’re not burning it here what’s happening is even worse.
We’re using even more fossil fuels to ship all that heavy ass coal to China where they burn it.
So it’s even worse than if we were burning it right outside the mine, and mining more coal despite not using it in America.
BeardedBlaze, 
16% of our power in 2023 was produced by burning coal, here.
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