I wanted to make this document available to everyone. I think it will be helpful in the way it is organized. The credit goes to Betsy Janes of the Kentucky American Lung Association for preparing this. We would like to update it as more regulation gets passed in the states. Hopefully Kentucky wi…
The Kentucky Radon Program recently finished a draft of radon regulations for certification of radon testers, mitigators, and laboratories. In 1993, a law was passed for the Cabinet of Health and Family Services to promulgate regulations for certification. An attempt was made in 2005 for state reg…
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radon-resistant new construction (RRNC) web pages.
Also, there have been personnel changes in the Office and Division that you may not have heard about. Tom Kelly has stepped up to be…
How can you measure success or fine-tune your efforts to deliver the most radon risk reduction?In my last blog, I laid out some ideas about how to work with agents, brokers and others to bring radon into the residential real estate transaction in a way that benefits both consumers and agents. I sug…
The EPA Publication "The Cost of Illness Handbook" is available on line at http://www.epa.gov/oppt/coi/ and it has a section on lung cancer cost. Attached are two articles that Dr. Bill Field recently shared on the cost of lung cancer.
If we don't find funding to mitigate the homes of low income cit…
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