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Can Trump Save Coal Without Killing All the Miners?

Last month, the New York Times reported on the identification of the largest cluster of advanced black lung cases ever reported.  (And lest you think that this is fake news, the Times contains a link to the article, which was a Research Letter published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, that known collection of left-wing zealots.)  Here’s the sobering summary from one of the authors:

There’s an unacceptably large number of younger miners who have end-stage disease and the only choice is to get a lung transplant or wait it out and die.… More