GOP Tax Bill Would Extend Endangered Funding for Disabled Miners

By: Sydney Boles | Ohio Valley ReSource
Posted on: Wednesday, November 28, 2018

As Appalachian coal miners suffer from a historic surge in black lung disease, a federal trust fund that supports some of those miners has been scheduled to lose a significant portion of its funding. A new tax bill in Congress includes a provision to extend the coal excise tax that supports the trust fund. With… Read More