Date Published: 02/01/2020 [Source]
It's a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas. It seeps into your home, sometimes getting trapped in basements. You don't know that it's there. But it can hurt you.
I'm not talking about carbon monoxide. You've heard of that, and the above description applies to carbon monoxide from faulty furnaces and its poisoning effects that can be immediately deadly. It's why carbon monoxide detectors are as important as smoke detectors in our homes.
But today the topic is radon — colorless, odorless and tasteless — with one other important property: it's radioactive. Radon is the subject of a monthslong investigation by Deseret News reporter Sara Israelsen-Hartley, a project born from her experience and her persistence convincing her editors that this story had to be done.