This is the first of a devastating three-part series about the exploitation of miners by coal mining companies, lawyers, and high-powered experts who all profited while sick miners wasted away with black lung. It's a remarkable reminder that even when a program exists -- such as the federal black lung compensation program -- that it can be manipulated by more powerful and resourceful interests to circumvent the program's true goals.
"Coal industry's go-to law firm withheld evidence of black lung, at expense of sick miners" by Chris Hamby
Published by the Center for Public Integrity, October 29, 2013
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