The Nation - News from Aug. 11, 1988

A House committee approved a $46-million package calling for federal and state action to combat cancer-causing radon pollution in houses and schools. The legislation, which cleared the Energy and Commerce Committee for floor action by a voice vote, would set a national long-term goal of making the air inside buildings as free of radon gas concentrations as the air outside buildings. It would require the Environmental Protection Agency to update and revise its “Citizen’s Guide to Radon” to include information about health risks posed by indoor levels of the naturally occurring gas produced by decaying uranium deposits.