Call to Action: To Reduce Lung Cancer from Radon
in American Homes
When: December 9, 2011
Where: 1660 L Street NW, Suite 1000 Washington, DC
Time: Working Lunch Meeting - Noon – 2:30 PM
A working lunch meeting hosted at the DC office of The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), with ALA, AARST, CANSAR, CRCPD, NEHA, and other organizations to establish an ongoing radon call for action among the public health and affordable housing sectors.
Learn About the first-ever U.S. Federal Action Plan, released in June 2011, which aims to reduce loss of life due to elevated radon in houses, apartments, child care facilities, schools, and offices by mitigating 10 million U.S. homes with elevated radon – and other opportunities for reducing exposure in the US housing stock.
Join a concerted effort to reduce radon exposure from US homes by stimulating synergies among allied public and private sector organizations, ranging from Federal agencies to community-based non-profit organizations and the U.S. housing sector, to apply well-documented cost-effective interventions to the nation’s highest risk real estate assets.
Help Ensure the Effectiveness of the Federal Action Plan, which includes radon testing and mitigation of assisted housing, loans and grants to fund radon mitigation in homes of low-income families, and efforts to facilitate the deductibility of radon testing and mitigation costs. The plan promises means to ensure property values while at the same time saving lives from this deadly toxin. The plan’s objectives will not be accomplished without key public and private leadership.
Why? 21,000 lives are lost each year from radon-related lung cancer. See www.aarst.org and www.epa.gov/radon for more information.
RSVP: Jane Malone E-MAIL: jmalone@nchh.org PHONE: 202-280-1982 OR Peter Hendrick (AARST Executive Director) E-MAIL: director@aarst.org PHONE: 866-772-2778 or 888-756-9259 BY: Friday 11/18
Organizing Committee Members include:
Janice Nolen, American Lung Association (ALA)
Calvin Murphy, American Association of Radon Scientists & Technologists (AARST)
Ruth McBurney, Conference of Radiation Program Control Directors (CRCPD)
Gloria Linnertz, Cancer Survivors Against Radon (CANSAR)
Jane Malone, National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH)
Larry Marcum, National Environmental Health Association (NEHA)