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EPA Urges Home Testing for Radon to Reduce Lung-Cancer Risk
Release Date: 01/21/2004
Contact Information:
John Millett 202-564-7842 / [email protected]
*Attention Assignment Editors/Health/Home: Radon B-Roll, Audio Available via Satellite*
(01/21/2004) - You can’t see it, smell it or taste it, but with an estimated 21,000 radon-related lung-cancer deaths per year, the EPA urges Americans to test their homes for radon now. Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer.
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What: EPA Urges Radon Testing in all Homes
When: Thursday, January 22
1:00 -1:15 p.m. and 4:00 - 4:15 p.m. EST
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Do-it-yourself radon test kits cost around $25. Most homes found to have high levels of radon can be mitigated to reduce the gas from their homes at a modest cost. For more information visit https://www.epa.gov/radon or to see the state-by-state EPA map of radon levels visit https://www.epa.gov/radon/zonemap.html . To get a radon test kit call (800) SOS-RADON or (800)767-7236. For local information call your state radon office. Interviews with local radon experts are available.
Visual Elements available on the video news feed:
• PSA
• Interviews:
Jeff Holmstead, EPA Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation
Bill Field, Professor of Epidemiology and Radon Expert, University of Iowa
- Dan Steck, Professor of Physics, St. Johns University, The Minnesota Radon Project,
http://www.csbju.edu/mnradon/
- Ann Rhodes, Homeowner, talks about testing for radon, and installing a home mitigation system
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