SWAT Environmental reports that radon, a harmful gas linked to lung cancer, can be mitigated by testing and using techniques ...

A program to make people aware of the dangers of potentially cancer-causing radon gas in homes enlists real estate agents to distribute testing kits to their clients. But getting those clients — ...

Risk maps for the cancer-causing gas radon can encourage people to test their homes for the substance, but only if homeowners ...

This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. About 5 billion years ago, stars merged and exploded, creating uranium that eventually became ...

Radon is a radioactive gas found in many homes and is the No. 1 cause of lung cancer in nonsmokers.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - There is radiation all around us. Radios, televisions, cell phones, and microwaves are all things that release radiation. These are considered to not be harmful, but there is ...

Advocates pushed on Monday for legislative support for a new iteration of a proposed bill that would mandate radon testing in Pennsylvania schools. Michelle Naccarati-Chapkis, executive director of ...

Tests have shown more than half of the houses in Morgan County have dangerously high levels of the radioactive gas radon.

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)- January is National Radon Action Month, and Jefferson County Public Health (JCPH) is encouraging residents to protect themselves and loved ones from dangerous radon gas ...

Doug Hoffer, Vermont Auditor of Accounts Vermont schools should be healthy and safe environments in which to learn and work. To that end, the Vermont Legislature passed and the Governor signed into ...

In 2021, Gov. Phil Scott signed a miscellaneous education bill into law requiring all public and approved independent schools to test for radon on or before June 30, 2023, or before June 30, 2024, for ...