There are fewer than 70,000 coal miners in the United States. Worldwide, 25,000 people died of black lung disease in 2013 alone, according to a study in the Lancet.
President Donald Trump’s executive order did nothing about black lung disease. Trump’s deregulation of the coal industry makes coal mine disasters much more likely.
Trump doesn’t give a damn about the coal miners. He does care about donations from the corporate owners of coal mines.
B. Jerome Wheeler
Kansas City
