The burdensome cost of black lung.

• Position: No Comment - Rand Paul on black lung disease - Brief article

Senator Rand Paul questioned the need for new federal coal-mining rules to reduce black-lung disease, despite figures showing the illness has been on the rise in recent years, reports the Courier-Journal. "Every regulation doesn't save lives," Paul said at a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. "There is a point of a balancing act between when a regulation becomes burdensome and our energy production is...