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Climate (campaign title)
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Coal
Coal mining
Elderly
Faces
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Health
Illness
KWCI (GPI)
Men
Miners
One person
Miner with Black Lung in Appalachia
This 89-year-old former coal miner and U.S. Army veteran of the World War II battle of Iwo Jima is suffering from end stage black lung disease. He has been fighting for his benefits since 1981 and has been consistently denied. Now he is unable to do the tests because of infirmity -- he can barely walk and is on oxygen 24 hours a day. Each year, an average of 24,000 Americans die as a result of pollution from coal-fired power plants, including 2,800 from lung cancer.
Unique identifier:
GP02F98
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
02/06/2011
Locations:
Appalachian Mountains
,
North America
,
United States of America
,
West Virginia
Credit line:
© Greenpeace
Size:
4752px × 3168px 9MB
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
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Health Impacts on West Virginia Coal Miners
A documentation on retired miners suffering from Black Lung and other lung diseases. They have been denied benefits for Black Lung Disease and are dying from the impacts of breathing coal dust.
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