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This week on Inside Appalachia, we hear from a radiologist in eastern Kentucky who says he’s seeing a rise in cases of black lung among young coal miners. We’ll also hear the first part of a new series from reporters Randy Yohe and Chris Schulz about the dog racing industry in West Virginia. Then, we’ll travel to Monaca, Pennsylvania where Shell plans to begin operations at its massive ethane cracker plant, and our host Mason Adams speaks with author Barbara Ellen Smith.
Feb 12, 2021
WHEELING The Ohio County Public Library’s weekly livestream of its popular Lunch With Books program will feature “Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle Over Black Lung Disease” with author Barbara Ellen Smith.
The program takes place from noon to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 16.
This fully updated edition of a classic work from one of the leading scholars of Appalachia documents a community’s struggle against the deadly black lung disease. Employment and production in the Appalachian coal industry have plummeted over recent decades. But the lethal black lung disease, once thought to be near-eliminated, affects miners at rates never before recorded.