Considers S. 355 and related S. 467, S. 1094, S. 1178, S. 1300, and S. 1907, to strengthen Federal coal mining health and safety regulations.

Considers (81) H.R. 3023.

In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how, for decades, the combined failure of government, medicine, and industry to halt the spread of black lung disease--and even to acknowledge its existence--resulted in a national tragedy, the effects of which are still being felt.