Miners with the disease benefit from a federal program that offers them a monthly stipend and helps cover their medical costs, using funding from an excise tax charged to coal mine operators. The tax was scheduled to expire in December 2021, but Casey and several other lawmakers from mining states pushed Congress to extend it permanently.

The senator stopped in York to see where stakeholders plan to revitalize the city’s waterway and how a major grant he secured will help.

Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. Bob Casey conceded the race to Republican Dave McCormick more than two weeks after Election Day.