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David K. Hackett
DOE impacted sites. Something more in keeping with Black Lung and the Veteran's Hospitals, but without the big bureaucracies -- at least as a choice ...
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DOE's Strategy in dealing with sick workers
Feb. 28, 1998.) I dubbed the Oak Ridge lung problems as invisible "white lung" as compared to the "black lung" of the coal fields. There is an old adage that ... of beryllium and other fumes causing sickness. Let me compare the black lung settlement with the unfolding invisible white lung scenario. The black lung statue included: waiving the statute of limitations for making claims; and ...
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Printed Matter -- John Jacobs -- November 23, 1997 Page
He was important in such areas as welfare reform, black lung compensation for coal miners, reapportionment and wildlife and parks conservation. "And very few people today ...
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Buried Ghosts and Black Diamonds LiteraryTraveler.com
Black lung, the miners called the disease. Those afflicted with it, and there were many, coughed up black phlegm. They felt ... do in the yards of northeast Pennsylvania homes. Like so many black lung widows, Aunt Chesla survived with a sense of her own ... own brand of justice to bear on those who exploit the black lung widows. Greedy sons of former coal mine owners, petty thieves, ...
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Mystery Interview: Marianne Wilski Strong LiteraryTraveler.com
Are there black lung widows? MWS: Most of the black lung widows have passed on. Coal mining ... have many people left who actually mine nor the black lung widows but you do have children and grandchildren ... to Marianne Wilski Strong's article "Buried Ghosts and Black Diamonds" Advertisement: Advertisement: © Copyright 1998-2008 LiteraryTraveler.com Literary Traveler ...
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Mountain Justice - Coalfield Residents, MJS trace Massey’s trail of destruction
The Sylvester Dustbusters, Mary ... that kept the wind from reaching the coal stockpiles. Each week their white rags turn black with coal dust from the Elk Run Plant before they are labeled and stored in ...
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Mountaintop removal coal -- Ohio Citizen Action
The horizontal black stripe in the wall is a coal seam. The brown material ... on weekends. He died years before I was born, from complications of black lung, among other things. Zylpha believes that coal mining will remain in ... problem of perception: 'People don't like coal because it's black,' he told me. 'If it were white, all our problems would be ...
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ENN: The Afterlife of German Coal Mining
Seifert has no lasting illnesses, but a friend has a tracheotomy, likely due to black lung disease. "I really had a guardian angel," Seifert said. ADVERTISEMENT It was the dedicated labor ...
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Kaitlyn Grigsby interview -- Ohio Citizen Action
He died years before I was born, from complications of black lung, among other things. Zylpha believes that coal mining will remain in the future of West ...
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NPC Online Library: Newsletters-- Flight Tracks, February 1997
If there is a sticky black substance, it is probably jet fuel deposits. Many of the ... leukemia, blood disorders, reproductive hazards as well as eye, sinus and lung problems. On behalf of ARCO, ACS & NRDC, Directors Saporito and Dr ... , ‘Why don’t you try enjoying life on a respirator and Black-Lung Benefits?’” John S. Sonin, O’Hare Warehouse worker - Jan. 24, 1997, ...
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