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The reductions in force of NIOSH’s Respiratory Health Division have officially been rescinded, according to new court ...
HHS has reversed the firings of more than 100 employees with the federal institute that protects coal miners from black lung, according to Sen. Shelley Moore Capito.
John Howard, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, told U.S. District Judge Irene Berger that 51 workers who had received termination notices in April were back on the ...
A certification was entered in federal court this week proving that at least 50 employees at the National Institute of ...
An attorney in a lawsuit that sought to restore jobs at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health in ...
Meeting a court-ordered deadline, attorneys for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services stated the department has ...
Among the more than 150 executive actions President Donald Trump has taken since assuming office in January are orders that aim to boost oil and gas drilling, mining and commercial fishing in the ...
The Trump administration has cut programs that protected workers from lung disease, aided those afflicted, and kept miners safe.
A federal judge on May 13, 2025 granted a request from a Kanawha County man who works at a Raleigh County mine for an order to restore the respiratory health division of a federal research agency that ...
A federal judge has already granted a preliminary injunction to halt layoffs within coal-related programs at the Morgantown ...
The Trump administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for 34 offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration, ...
Meanwhile, one of West Virginia’s congressional representatives received direct answers on NIOSH from U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Ruling on a request from a ...