Deep in Trump country, coal miners with black lung say government is suffocating the 'working man'

Lisa Emery, a respiratory therapist, is deeply concerned about West Virginia coal miners suffering from black lung disease ...

PHOTO ESSAY: Coal miners with black lung fight Trump administration rollback of safety protections

Deep in the hills of West Virginia, coal mining and the dangers that come with it have been a part of families’ lives for generations.

Review: When the Government Sent a Photographer To Document Living Conditions in Coal Towns (opinion)

Russell Lee's 1946 photographs shows the squalor coal miners and their families lived in before mechanization.