KY’s Beshear backs black lung bill in Congress
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear requested that the state's congressional delegation support a bill to amend the Black Lung Benefits Act to improve benefits for disabled miners.
Gov. Andy Beshear asked Kentucky’s congressional delegation in a Thursday letter to throw their support behind a bill amending the Black Lung Benefits Act to “provide adequate benefits for miners suffering from black lung disease.” The Black Lung Benefits Act “provides monthly payments and medical benefits to coal miners totally disabled from pneumoconiosis (black lung […]
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