{"id":144663,"date":"2010-01-06T09:50:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.utk.edu\/tntoday\/?p=18026"},"modified":"2010-01-06T09:50:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T14:50:08","slug":"test-your-home-for-radon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/144663","title":{"rendered":"Test Your Home for Radon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utk.edu\/tntoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/radon_200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18027\" title=\"Radon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.utk.edu\/tntoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/radon_200.jpg\" alt=\"Radon\" width=\"200\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a>During January&#8217;s National Radon Action Month, the U.S. Surgeon General and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urge all Americans to protect their health by testing their homes for radon.<\/p>\n<p>Radon is a natural radioactive gas that you can&#8217;t see, smell or taste but could be present at a dangerous level in your home. As the second leading cause of lung cancer deaths in the U.S. and the first leading cause among non-smokers, radon claims more than 20,000 lives annually. If a high radon level is detected in your home, you can take steps to fix it to protect yourself and your family.<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation is offering a limited amount of free radon test kits to Tennessee citizens. Please mail your request to:  Radon Program, 711 R.S. Gass Blvd., Nashville, TN 37216 or email your request to <a href=\"mailto:TDEC.Radon@tn.gov\">TDEC.Radon@tn.gov<\/a>. Be sure to include your name, address, city, state and ZIP code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During January&#8217;s National Radon Action Month, the U.S. Surgeon General and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urge all Americans to protect their health by testing their homes for radon. Radon is a natural radioactive gas that you can&#8217;t see, smell or taste but could be present at a dangerous level in your home. As the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}