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Poor air quality caused by ozone and other sources prompted the warnings across six states on Thursday and Friday.
Kaslo council has decided to host an open house for the public to discuss the South Beach RV park proposal, likely to be scheduled sometime in late August.
Scientists found millions of Americans may be regularly exposed to dangerous levels of arsenic, and they may not even know it ...
A new online platform could help communities detect a need for preventative fire management, with the goal of reducing subsequent smoke exposures. The app is able to identify not just where blazes ...
The EPA recommends taking action if your home or building is found to have a radon level higher than 4.0 pCi/L. Over time, ...
Well, if you go by the red radon risk maps, it’s very high. And if you go by the California Radon Test database for all zip codes on the South Shore, it’s 40 percent–– which is also high.
First, there is no building in the United States without some radon. The national average outdoor measure sits at about 0.4 picocuries per liter.
Idaho contractors, radon mitigation experts say radioactive gas is putting families, kids at risk of lung cancer in Sun Valley, McCall, Coeur d’Alene, Boise ...
The bad: A map developed by the Department of Health shows how 40 percent of the state’s homes have dangerous levels of radon. In McLeod County, the rate is even higher, between 54 and 67 percent.
A new map has revealed that up to 25 percent of Americans live in areas where radon levels are considered unsafe by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Radon is a radioactive gas that has ...
Map from the paper revealing average predicted community-level radon concentrations at screening floor across contiguous United States during 2001 to 2021. Over 83 million people around the ...