As director of the New River Health Association Black Lung Clinic, Emery’s seen guys as young as 45 getting double lung transplants as disease rates soar among miners forced to dig through more rock filled with deadly silica to reach the remaining coal — far worse than the dust their grandfathers inhaled. A rule approved last year by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration would cut the federal limit for allowable respirable crystalline silica dust exposure by half to help protect miners of all types nationwide from the current driving force of black lung and other illnesses.
But, now, it’s in jeopardy amid other Trump administration cutbacks and proposals targeting workers’ health and safety guardrails: Stuck in a politically charged environment that promotes industry, with lawmakers arguing to change it and the federal agency that wrote the rule not pushing to enforce it. Some angry retired miners with black lung are fighting back, demanding that President Donald Trump honor promises he made to the people who voted him in.
Similar to how industrial contaminants like lead and arsenic correlate to higher rates of violence I wonder if there’s a bunch of hazards associated with just being a republican. If its just like a side effect of low grade mercury poisoning or something.
I don’t think most of you understand how desperate West Virginia is. They’re not retarded, the state government has been trying to figure ways out of their coal dependence. tl;dr: They are fucked.
Anyway, not a soul will watch this man’s journalism, but he’s the finest I know.
https://www.youtube.com/@PeterSantenello
Might change your views on a few things. But that’s scary!
Voting for a billionaire conman 3 times doesn’t really help your argument that these people aren’t mentally challenged
Drowning hazard: 1 inch of water, submerged
Choking hazard: 1 inch of dictator chode, fellated
a brutal way of looking at this is that the more of them that dies, the less people who will be voting for the party they voted for.
If the party wants to win the election, they should care about the people they voted forUnfortunately they multiply faster than they die. Sort of like an irritating fungus.
Make America Democratic Again
Coal miners throwing their full-throated support behind the politicians that the coal industry executives want them to will always be mind boggling to me given their proud history of unionization. But I guess now they just hate trans people and abortion more than they like good wages and workplace safety
more than they like good wages and workplace safety
Not like they were being promised good wages and workplace safety by either major party. Voting for Republicans is definitely making matters worse, but at least Republicans offer them something (which of course is all lies, but that’s beside the point).
I think talk radio explains maybe 70% of these problems. A lot of good rural jobs for the last 40 years involved significant amounts of driving. Rich right wingers have run a network of talk radio psychos for years which reaches places that don’t even have cable tv.
Imo we’d solve a lot of the problem by just getting some mid grade lefty podcasts and playing them over radio in a lot of places.
Rural Americans have spent the last 50 years getting bombarded by pedo-con media, and GOP gutted education to make sure they don’t have the tools to see past the lies.
Even the world’s smallest violin doesn’t give a fuck.
Have the day you voted for, idiots.
Read someone call this a tardivarius a while ago. And still makes me smile when reminded of it.
