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      <image:caption>United Mine Workers President Cecil E. Roberts speaks to coal miners and supporters outside of the Department of Labor on Tuesday. Ariel Wittenberg/POLITICO’s E&amp;E News</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Appalachian Voices Staffer Quenton King catches up with National Black Lung Association Vice President Vonda Robinson and Debbie Johnson, a black lung nurse at a meeting of the West Virginia Black Lung Association.  Photo by Annie Jane Cotten</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Emory “Curly” Carter, 70, holds his miner’s cap.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Carter’s first paycheck stub as a miner. The check was dated Oct. 18, 1975, and was for two weeks of work. It was for $424.30.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Patriot Coal Corporation Wells Preparation Plant on April 15 near Wharton, West Virginia. The plant is next to the Long Branch Energy coal mine where Carter worked until his retirement in 2012. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An X-ray of Chester Fike's lungs in 1992. (Family of Chester Fike)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An X-ray of Chester Fike's lungs in 2003. Fike had a double lung transplant in August 2012 but died four months later from pneumonia. (Family of Chester Fike)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Buffie Rosenberger wipes away tears as she recounts stories about her father, Chester Fike, who died after a long battle with black lung. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Coal shoots out as it travels from a silo at the Iron Senergy Preparation Plant on April 16 in Kirby, Pennsylvania. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Long Branch Energy coal mine operation near Wharton, West Virginia. The mine Lightfoot No. 1 is closed off and filled with dirt. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Anita Wolfe, a retired public health analyst with the Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program at NIOSH, flips through a memory book of the late Chester Fike. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Scott Laney at his home on April 14. Laney worked on the Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program before being placed on administrative leave. He was told his last day at NIOSH would be June 2. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Retired coal miner Emory “Curly” Carter, 70, with his wife, Ida Mae Carter, 70, at their home in Madison, West Virginia. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Long Branch Energy coal mine operation on April 15 near Wharton, West Virginia. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sam Petsonk has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services and its head, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to reinstate the Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program. (Taylor Sisk for KFF Health News)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Wes Addington, executive director of the Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center, says that although the new rule to protect coal miners, which was scheduled to take effect in April, wasn’t perfect, “it was going to save lives.” (Taylor Sisk for KFF Health News)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rex Fields, a retired coal miner, and his wife, Tilda, lobby on behalf of miners and share information about occupational dangers. (Taylor Sisk for KFF Health News)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lisa Emery, director of the New River Health Association Black Lung Clinic, examines a chest X-ray showing progressive massive fibrosis, the most complicated form of black lung, at the center on Sept. 23, 2025, in Oak Hill, W.Va. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Deep in Trump country, coal miners with black lung say government is suffocating the ‘working man’ - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mark F. Powell, a fourth-generation coal miner in southern West Virginia, stands for a portrait at attorney Sam Petsonk’s office Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, in Oak Hill, W.Va. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A banner with an image of President Donald Trump hangs outside the U.S. Department of Labor, Oct. 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Crosses and grave markers are seen at the Hawks Nest Workers Memorial and Grave Site, Sept. 24, 2025, in Mount Lookout, W.Va. Silica created one of the worst occupational disasters in U.S. history when more than 750 miners — most of them Black — died from breathing the toxic dust while drilling the Hawks Nest tunnel in the early 1930s to divert water to power a metal plant. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Arvin Hanshaw, of Summersville, W.Va., left, and Randy Lawrence, president of the Kanawha County Black Lung Association, right, put their hats back on after praying during a rally protesting the government’s failure to limit exposure to deadly silica in mines, outside the U.S. Department of Labor, Oct. 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Deep in Trump country, coal miners with black lung say government is suffocating the ‘working man’ - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Gary Hairston, president of the Fayette County Black Lung Association and the National Black Lung Association, wipes tears from his eyes during a protest outside the U.S. Department of Labor, Oct. 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lisa Emery, director of the New River Health Association Black Lung Clinic, right, works a patient with black lung disease Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025, in Oak Hill, W.Va. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A silo at a coal mine in Kirby, Pennsylvania in April 2025. Photo by Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cecil Roberts with the UMWA attended the protest in D.C. Chelsea Barnes / Appalachian Voices</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Vice President of the National Black Lung Association Vonda Robinson spoke at the rally, too. Chelsea Barnes / Appalachian Voices</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Former miners and their families rally in front of the Department of Labor, advocating for the federal government to enforce federal mine safety rules in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gary Hairston (from left to right), Judy Riffe, Dianna Perdue and Roosevelt Neal, stand outside of an office building for the U.S. House of Representatives last year. The advocates for people with black lung were in the U.S. Capitol encouraging lawmakers to support coal miners with the incurable disease. (Quenton King | Courtesy photo)</image:caption>
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