"Coal's Human Cost" - Preview
Preview: Season 2026 Episode 12 | 31sVideo has Closed Captions
Veteran underground coal miners suffer from black lung disease at highest rates in nearly 50 years.
Veteran underground coal miners are suffering from an incurable lung disease at the highest rates in nearly 50 years. With NPR, Public Health Watch and Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, FRONTLINE investigates how industry and government have failed to protect miners in Appalachia from black lung disease.
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"Coal's Human Cost" - Preview
Preview: Season 2026 Episode 12 | 31sVideo has Closed Captions
Veteran underground coal miners are suffering from an incurable lung disease at the highest rates in nearly 50 years. With NPR, Public Health Watch and Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, FRONTLINE investigates how industry and government have failed to protect miners in Appalachia from black lung disease.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> We have an epidemic here, of black lung.
>> Do you have a sense of what the rest of your life is going to be with black lung?
>> Well, you work your whole life to enjoy the rest of it.
And you can’t enjoy it.
>> NARRATOR: Growing on years of reporting, the failure to protect coal miners.
>> The numbers are astounding; how many young people are getting this disease.
>> This has been going on for decades.
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