( July 16, 2026, 12:05 PM EDT) -- CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Coal miners with black lung and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed a joint stipulation of dismissal with prejudice in West Virginia federal court, ending the miners’ putative class action lawsuit that had alleged that Kennedy violated federal law when he terminated the majority of staff at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Respiratory Health Division in Morgantown, W.Va....