The coal that powers our industries - bringing cheap textiles, central heating, and fresh fruit into our lives - also causes black lung, mine disasters, and acid rain.
Now aged seventy, his feet and hips are bearing the cost of his stooped shuffle through the tunnels, and his breathing is heavy with black lung, the miner's disease.
A federal fund created in 1977 to pay coal miners who developed black lung was funded with a tax on mining companies.
Thus anyone with severe respiratory ailments - black lung, brown lung, asbestosis, emphysema, and so on - is given adequate and comprehensive services as needed.
Many people became miners to make a living and thousands died of miner's diseases such as black lung and silicosis.
Definition of black lung in US English:
black lung
nounblæk ləŋ
North American
Pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of coal dust.
〈主美〉煤肺病，煤尘沉着病，矿工黑肺病
Example sentencesExamples
The coal that powers our industries - bringing cheap textiles, central heating, and fresh fruit into our lives - also causes black lung, mine disasters, and acid rain.
Many people became miners to make a living and thousands died of miner's diseases such as black lung and silicosis.
Now aged seventy, his feet and hips are bearing the cost of his stooped shuffle through the tunnels, and his breathing is heavy with black lung, the miner's disease.
A federal fund created in 1977 to pay coal miners who developed black lung was funded with a tax on mining companies.
Thus anyone with severe respiratory ailments - black lung, brown lung, asbestosis, emphysema, and so on - is given adequate and comprehensive services as needed.