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Republican Lawmakers Seek To Block Funding On Black Lung Regulation

Howard Berkes
July 17, 2012
National Public Radio

Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee – chaired by Kentucky Rep. Hal Rogers – have inserted into a broad appropriations bill language that would block funding for a Labor Department effort to reduce the occurrence of black lung, the disease that afflicts coal miners exposed to excessive mine dust.

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