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Health Dept. offers free radon tests

LISBON - As part of Radon Action Month, the Columbiana County Health Department is offering coupons residents can use for a free test kit for their home.

Free radon test kits available

Radon is the leading cause of lung cancer deaths among non-smokers.

Officials: Threat of radon high in state

There are a number of concerns when buying or owning a home, but the state Department of Environmental Protection is hoping homeowners pay attention to a specific odorless and radioactive gas -- radon.

Three Rivers to hold radon seminar, offers free tests

Three Rivers District Health Department is joining forces with federal and state agencies in a major campaign to educate local residents about the dangers of exposure to radon.

Radon levels high in Cumberland County

There are a number of concerns when buying or owning a home, but the Department of Environmental Protection is hoping homeowners pay attention to a specific odorless and radioactive gas - radon.

Sussex County residents encouraged to test homes for radon levels

Photo by Daniel Freel/New Jersey Herald - Ray Mooney, owner of Fortress Home Inspections, opens a radon detector as he discusses New Jersey radon levels in his Rockaway home Monday. “We are pretty busy with radon up here,” he said.

January is Radon Action Month

Breaking News:  No Exposure to radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer, after smoking. Now is the time to check your home and office space for radon levels. January is National Radon Action Month. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, radon exposure accounts for almost 20,000 deaths annually. read more

Vancouver man raises awareness of radon

The number didn’t mean much to John Koroloff at first: 26 picocuries per liter.

In Stratford's Olympic park, you can smell the ambition for London 2012

There are cranes everywhere. Hard hats and a sense that if we get this right, everything will change for the better Alfred Dickens, the novelist's brother, wrote a General Board of Health report on the area soon to be occupied by the Olympic athletes, recording that "the cholera raged" and there was "neither drainage nor paving" – "in winter the streets were impassable". More recently it was a ...

Test for radon, then take action steps

ROCK VALLEY, Iowa -- Kendall Munneke of Rock Valley admits he knew little of the colorless, odorless gas called radon two decades ago.