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May 9, 2012 • Peter Hendrick - a link of Adam M Finkle's RegBlog
The following link Reg Blog by Adam M. Finkely provides great perspective from a newcomer to the crazy upside down world of American Radon policy and our current funding crisis. A must read.
Adam writes:
"Even if the federal government wanted to encourage people to mitigate radon by “nudging” them rather than providing the public health benefits as part of a fiscal stimulus, it still seems inexplicable to declare, as the administration’s 2013 budget does, that an $8 million EPA program to educate the public about radon is a “mature program” that can be zeroed out. In my opinion, this is the wrong time to declare victory on a problem in which we have barely made a dent."
March 7, 2012 • Peter Hendrick
Board members from AARST and CanSAR spent Monday and Tuesday on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. urging the House and Senate Appropriations Committee members and staffers to reinstate the national radon budget and SIRG grants. We believe the cuts to SIRG and program cuts are not appropriate for risk reduction. AARST and CanSAR made the argument that the states contribute significantly to radon risk reduction. Our message that $8 Million in state grants had a return on lives saved and a significant medical cost savings was well received. Question: Can the states really complete the stated mission on their own without continued EPA support? How many will close? More work remains to be done to provide information to Congress. Some visits will occur today and House testimony will be received on March 21, 2012. CanSAR President Liz Hoffman to testify. All written testimony to be submitted by March 28, 2012.
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