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SUMMERSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA - AUGUST 25: George Russ, 84, a retired coal miner with black lung disease and a member of the United Mine Workers Union of America, UMWA, listens to an attorney explain about recent changes to miners health benefits August 25, 2022 at a monthly UMWA meeting in Summersville, West Virginia. The majority of coal miners who have black lung disease do not receive health benefits they are qualified for due to bureaucratic delays with examinations. A recent agreement as part of the national Inflation Reduction Act, IRA, will restore funds to miners health benefits fund a 50-cent excise tax for each ton of coal sold in the market. UMWA miners had lost millions of dollars of benefits when the 50-cent tax was taken away after coal mine owners pressured for its removal. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)