Brian Laird on WNYC.

All right, we'll talk some more primary day politics later.

We'll also have our WNYC Centennial series, 100 Years of 100 Things, Thing Number 99, 100 Years of the Fight for

LGBTQ Rights.

We have a really interesting historian lined up for that as we're going to go back to

1924, exactly 100 years and a year ago, and trace some of the politics and the stories will invite

oral history calls. So that's coming up. Now, our usual health and climate Tuesday section of

the show, today how they intersect around President Trump's desire to reinvigorate the coal

industry of all things, even as a New York Times article reveals the

greater toll that black lung disease is taking among younger coal miners in today's generations.

I don't know if we'll find any callers in our New York area-based listenership with personal

experience or family experience or anything related to the coal mining industry.

But if you're out there,

you're invited to call in and talk about black lung disease specifically or whether the coal

industry is worth saving or regrowing in your view. 212-433 WNYC, 212, 433, 9692, you can call us now.

But this New York Times article says, Black Lung Disease was known as an old man's disease.

But in reality right now, the disease is showing up in men as young as their 30s and 40s.

In fact, one in five working minors in

Central Appalachia are estimated to be afflicted, according to the article. And this resurgence

does come as President Trump as part of, you know, drill baby drill, is promoting so-called

beautiful clean coal, as he says, and the Trump administration has

slashed funding for federal research on black lung. We have the writer of the article, Kate Morgan,

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