Word: radon
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...halted, but the EPA will be forbidden from enforcing current regulations regarding storm water runoff, sewage overflow and toxic dumping. Hundreds of millions of dollars that the EPA provides to assist states in paying for water and sewage treatment plants will be eliminated. The EPA's influence in curbing radon in drinking water and cancer-causing substances in food will be eviscerated. Guidelines and programs to decrease air pollution will be scrapped or reduced in funding. Even the ban on chlorofluorocarbons--the chemical responsible for ozone depletion--is now subject to further review...
...Radon gas may be responsible for up to one tenth of all lung cancer deaths in the U.S., says a new study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. According to the Journal, Radon seeping into homes from the ground may cause an estimated 14,400 lung cancer deaths, and may be responsible for 30 percent of lung cancer deaths in nonsmokers. The study's conclusions are based on an analysis of hard-rock miners who had cancer and had been exposed to radon at work. The authors are quick to note that their results should be interpreted with...
Alar on apples, radon in homes, asbestos in schools. the U.S. appears to ricochet from one environmental crisis to another, with the result that policy aimed at reducing risks to human health frequently appears to make little economic or scientific sense. Even some environmentalists concur that decisions to rip asbestos out of school buildings were probably ill considered. In many cases, sealing the dangerous fibers in place would have provided a more prudent and less costly remedy. Similarly, while no one denies that homes with high levels of radon pose a health hazard requiring prompt attention, what about houses with...
...cancer and even in trace amounts it may put the immune, reproductive and developmental systems at risk. "We've gone through a period in which the public has pooh-poohed other potential dangers," says TIME senior editor Charles Alexander. "People have said we've over-reacted to alar and radon and asbestos. This report goes against that trend. It says that dioxin really is dangerous...
...Publication War: burdened by crippling financial planning and ruthless party chairmen, the Crimson crumbled and has been content to print articles about security guards which no one understands. And, just as every Third World nation is trying to build an atomic bomb out of Sterno and radon testers, so too is there a proliferation of pranking on campus. These events are not unrelated...