BLACK LUNG DISEASE
March 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
THE US'S Bush administration has revived several President Clinton-era proposed rules meant to protect coal miners from black lung disease. In particular, this decision reverses a December 2001, Bush decision to stop the continuous monitoring of coal dust in underground mines and for US Mine Safety and Health Administration
(MSHA) to verify dust control plans at surface mines. That said, despite the Republican's new vigour regarding the coal dust issue, a Clinton administration regulation that actually limited concentration of the substance in ...
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