The most dangerous threat in a home might not crackle, leak, or smell. It might sit quietly in the basement right now, ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — January is National Radon Action Month, and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is encouraging Pennsylvanians to test their homes for radon, bringing public ...

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

If kids learned about radon in science class, their teachers would tell them there’s wide agreement on what the radioactive gas is, how it gets into buildings and the harm it can do to someone’s ...

In Colorado, as of 2025, about 500 people a year die from lung cancer as the result of radon gas exposure. Nationally, the number of lung cancer deaths attributed to radon is about 21,000 per year.

A still from a Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection video demonstrating how to use a radon test kit. The Department of Environmental Protection is urging Pennsylvania residents to test ...

PROBLEM. THAT IS, A RADIOACTIVE GAS THAT HAS NO COLOR, SMELL, OR TASTE. SO IT’S DIFFICULT TO DETECT. BUT THE IOWA CANCER CONSORTIUM SAYS LUNG CANCER FROM RADON EXPOSURE RESULTS IN 400 DEATHS ANNUALLY ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is urging all school districts in the state to test their buildings for radon. A Dispatch investigation found that few Ohio schools follow EPA and state health department ...

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