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'We're really going to be hurting': Miner advocates see bleak WV congressional landscape without Manchin

Their coal dust-scarred lungs have left them short of breath for years. ....

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'We're really going to be hurting': Miner advocates see bleak WV congressional landscape without Manchin

Their coal dust-scarred lungs have left them short of breath for years. ....

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WV leads nation in use of program to move miners to low-dust environment amid black lung rise, but underuse persists

Jerry Coleman can only take half a breath. His lungs are irrevocably scarred after a nearly four-decade mining career. ....

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