Coal’s Human Cost

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2026 · 54 min · Documentary

Overview

From PBS Frontline; Working veteran underground coal miners are suffering from an incurable lung disease at the highest rates in nearly 50 years. With NPR, publichealthwatch, and Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom (porchlightnews), we've been investigating how industry and government have failed to protect miners in Appalachia from black lung disease.

Directed by Molly Born

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