Radon News

Students win environmental honors
New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection sponsored a contest in which 195 students statewide designed posters expressing the importance of radon awareness and testing in... [Read More]

University confirms high radon levels in Forbes
Air quality tests performed in the Forbes basement library measured radon levels of 7.5 picocuries per liter (pCi/L), University officials announced in a press release Wednesday. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommends that steps be taken to... [Read More]

Gas Leaks: What You Don't Smell Will Harm You
New York City was the scene of a puzzling mystery Monday. An unidentified gas-like odor made its way across Manhattan and parts of New Jersey and resulted in some building evacuations and mass transit interruptions. How can you protect your family... [Read More]

Testing of sites to continue
A class assignment educated more than Princeton University students this week, when levels of the radioactive gas radon were found in the basements of two buildings on... [Read More]

High radon levels found on campus
The University has closed off the basement of Forbes College after students raised concerns that area, as well as the basement of Edwards Hall, might contain unusually high concentrations of the cancer-causing natural gas radon. Radon is a... [Read More]