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Republican Senator asks RFK Jr. to save health unit that protects coal miners

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Senator Shelley Moore Capito asks HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. to reinstate programs aimed at protecting coal miners.

HHS announced widespread layoffs on April 1 , including around 875 of NIOSH 's roughly 1,000 -strong workforce.

Around 500 of those employees were from the Morgantown , West Virginia , office.

NIOSH ran a surveillance program to detect cases of black lung disease.