PA had high Radon levels before fracking.
I hate to point this out, but obviously no one thinks about this.
Prior to the 1980s...insulation of homes was marginal or 2-star at best. But the environmentalists came and said that it’d be really helpful to turbo-charge our home insulation and get the better windows/doors. So when we heated or cooled....it stayed in.
Well...not only did the heat stay in...but the radon stayed in as well. Unless you have some exhaust fan rigged up and regularly air out the heavily insulated home...it’ll continue to build up. We can go to any area where radon was somewhat common before fracking came along, and then look for areas without any fracking (there are plenty of these areas)....and find heavier concentrations of radon.
This is NOT rocket science. If you do something....there’s a consequence, and it’s not all a good thing.
They certainly did. The historic high levels might be more closely related to the mining and older forms of drilling predominant there for a hell of a long time.
Add NJ to the list. I lived in Base housing at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst in the late 80’s and they came and put detectors in the rooms on the first floor. I moved out as soon as I could.
Yes. Bought a home in PA in 2003. A radon test was part of the home inspection performed prior to closing. There were elevated levels of radon which were “normal” for PA, but not considered dangerous. The area is well east of the Marcellus fracking zones, so the elevated levels were natural and could not attributed to fracking. The media and academia are part of a well-coordinated leftist campaign to torpedo our energy boom.