[Citizen Zed]

Who's naggier? Maggie or Stacey?

[cripplecreek]

Radon

Well there’s a word I haven’t heard in a while.

[struggle]

Radon is always heavy in the PA/MD area. Our old house in rural MD was so bad it had to have a fan installed to blow it out.

[Arm_Bears]

The study cannot directly link fracking with the raised radon levels.

Then why even bring it up?

How about this--I can't say definitively that Harry Reid is a paedophile, but you never know.

[FreeReign]

PA had high Radon levels before fracking.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Pennsylvania has ALWAYS had a higher-than-average level of radon in homes. The problem was DISCOVERED here.

It’s the ROCKS, stupid!!

[CGASMIA68]

Yea well show us the documentation on the levels B4 fracking began.....

[mountainlion]

Most radon tests are below the threshold of the detection equipment. Liberals think any detected radiation is dangerous but they never talk to those treated by radioactive iodine for prostate cancer.

[RayChuang88]

Radon gas naturally occurs on many soils and always has been a problem in homes with basements WAY before we started the fracking process. Move along, folks.

[Zathras]

I guess the earthquake thing isn’t working anymore.

[IMR 4350]

Before fracking, smallpox killed millions of children.

Why does the left want to stop fracking and kill millions of children with smallpox?

See lefties I can use loony logic too.

[House Atreides]

More FUD and attempts to mislead from leftist media in yet another attempt to derail an American success story. They are SO predictable.

[deweyfrank]

the researchers say. Who are these researchers? Who paid for this research? I smell crap.

[CPT Clay]

Are we just looking for excuses to ban fracking?

[W.]

Staggie and Macey? Seriously, I, too, smell anti-fracking BS spewed by Pete and Repete, trying to turn that line of crap into more uninformed public opinion.

[Night Hides Not]

Better exhume Snarlin’ Arlen.

[dangus]

Geez, Pennsylvania always had very high radon levels in their homes. It was epicenter of the Radon-detection movement.

[dila813]

It was discovered in the 80s that the biggest driver of radon in PA was Jimmy Carters push for insulation in the homes. This created a way for the radon to rise up and accumulate in the house to dangerous levels.

Solution was to remove insulation and improve ventilation.

Mistakes of the past repeated again.

[dangus]

See that red blog in the Northeast? That's central, south, and eastern pennsylvania. Yes, there's also a lot of radon in Iowa and the Red River valley of Minnesota. But that's where most people who have ultra-high levels of radon live.

[Baynative]

Great news for lib lawmakers who can make Radon detectors mandatory in every room in every building.

[Flick Lives]

But they also noticed a trend over time. Depending on where in the homes the radon was measured, radon levels started inching up in either 2004 or 2006. And the trend was linked with just how much unconventional drilling was going on. This includes horizontal mines and hydraulic fracturing or fracking.

Granite can emit radon. Could be all the granite countertops that became so very trendy in the last 10 or so years. Or, it could be the ongoing obsession with preventing the tiniest air leak in houses for the purpose of saving energy. Radon gas in a house will dissipate unless the air is trapped within a house.