boutons_deux
07-09-2012, 07:01 AM
From 1968 through 2007, black lung caused or contributed to roughly 75,000 deaths in the United States, according to government data. In the decades following passage of the 1969 law, rates of the disease dropped significantly. Then, in the late 1990s, this trend reversed.
Many of the newer cases have taken a particularly ugly form. While rates of black lung overall have increased, incidence of the most severe, fast-progressing type has jumped significantly. These cases, moreover, are occurring in younger and younger miners. Of particular concern are “hot spots” identified in central Appalachia by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, NIOSH, a government research agency. Though levels of disease are still below what they were before 1970, medical experts and miners’ advocates are alarmed.
http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/07/08/9293/black-lung-surges-back-coal-country
TX's $0.08 per Kwh is "cheap" for some people.
Imagine the black lung rates since 1968 WITHOUT hated, despised, ridiculed GOVERNMENT REGULATION.
and coal ash STILL isn't regulated as toxic. BigCoal is just another owner of government.
Many of the newer cases have taken a particularly ugly form. While rates of black lung overall have increased, incidence of the most severe, fast-progressing type has jumped significantly. These cases, moreover, are occurring in younger and younger miners. Of particular concern are “hot spots” identified in central Appalachia by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, NIOSH, a government research agency. Though levels of disease are still below what they were before 1970, medical experts and miners’ advocates are alarmed.
http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/07/08/9293/black-lung-surges-back-coal-country
TX's $0.08 per Kwh is "cheap" for some people.
Imagine the black lung rates since 1968 WITHOUT hated, despised, ridiculed GOVERNMENT REGULATION.
and coal ash STILL isn't regulated as toxic. BigCoal is just another owner of government.