by Margaret HendersonVermont’s Healthy Homes website includes a video on one Vermont resident who lost her mother to lung cancer, likely caused by high radon levels in the home as found by testing the home after her mother’s passing at the suggestion of her physician. She encourages everyone to test…
by Margaret HendersonThe Wisconsin Department of Health Services has included radon in its state health plan, Healthiest Wisconsin 2020. Objective 2 of Environmental and Occupational Health states:
“By 2020, increase the percentage of homes with healthy, safe environments in all communities. (Safe e…
by Margaret HendersonDoes Your Home Have a Radon Problem? is a new brochure by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SDHEC) explains that in South Carolina, radon can be a problem.
https://www.scdhec.gov/sites/default/files/Library/CR-006953.pdf. A chart of lung cancer…
by Margaret HendersonThe State Indoor Radon Program, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, increases awareness of radon health risks through outreach and sharing of information. Its goal is to encourage testing and mitigation if levels found through testing are elevated.
Throughout the years…
by Margaret HendersonNew York State Department of Health Wadsworth Center’s mission is “Science in the Pursuit of Health,” serving as the state’s public health laboratory. The lab conducts analyses, research, investigations and educational outreach. In its radon outreach, through the New York State…
Reprinted with permission from CRCPD Newsbrief, August 2018Joshua Kerber, a leading U.S. expert in radon remediation and prevention, from the Minnesota
Department of Health, participated with Friderik Knez from the Department of Building Physics in the
Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineeri…