Pending Indoor Air Quality and Radon Abatement Legislation
Pending Indoor Air Quality and Radon Abatement Legislation

Author: Environment and Public Works Cmte

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-16

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780656711734

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Excerpt from Pending Indoor Air Quality and Radon Abatement Legislation: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Regulation of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session Epa estimates that the cost to society from these threats, includ ing medical costs, increased sick leave, and reduced productivity, are in the tens of billions of dollars per year. The good news is that most of those costs can be prevented. Epa and its Science Advisory Board in comparative risk studies have consistently ranked indoor air pollution, including radon, as one of the four top environmental risks to the health of the Ameri can people. A report that was released just yesterday by the Center for Resource Economics pointed out that epa Spends only a small portion of its budget on some of its most dangerous pollution prob lems, and one of those is indoor radon. In Health People 2000, the Nation's health strategy, the Department Of Health and Human Services identified increased radon testing as one of the three top environmental health goals for the Nation. Testifying before this committee, a former assistant surgeon gen eral, Vernon Houk, said that the evidence of the health threat posed by radon is the strongest of any environmental contaminant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Pending Indoor Air Quality and Radon Abatement Legislation: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Regulation of the Committee on En
Pending Indoor Air Quality and Radon Abatement Legislation: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Regulation of the Committee on En

Author: United States Congress Senate Committ

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9781378134115

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