A New Heartbeat is Coming to Benton County
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Local leaders support boosting black lung benefits. That consensus hasn’t emerged in Congress.

Liam Niemeyer
Posted 7/13/26

For Ohio County Judge-Executive David Johnston, passing a resolution last year urging an increase in black lung disability benefits was a matter of principle.  The last major coal mine in Ohio County, a part of the Western Kentucky Coal Field region, closed years ago. But he said the former miners who have coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, […]

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