WVU Expert Reports Uptick In Black Lung Disease

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Some might think the coal industry is declining and struggling, but that’s just not so, says one expert.
“The output of coal in this country has not really dropped very much since even the 1980s, so we’re still producing a lot of coal,” says West Virginia University professor Dr. Michael McCawley. “We’re using fewer miners to do it.”
At a taping of the Sunday Business Page on Thursday morning w