ATHENS — Josh Wilson walked up the small metal steps in his heavy, paint-spattered work boots. The Pomeroy native has been a coal miner for a decade, but he hasn't worked for the past four months. He is only 38 but coughs like an old man — the hacking shakes his whole body. His kidneys recently failed, landing him in the hospital. And now he's having trouble breathing. "Especially at night," Wilson said. So at the insistence of his wife, he is here getting screened for coal workers' pneumoconiosis, also known as black lung...
