Washington, DC — Hundreds of thousands of public housing residents remain at risk from radon exposure due to intransigence within holdover management at the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD), charges Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the National Center for Healthy Housing. Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer after cigarette smoking and contributes to as many as 30,000 lung cancer deaths per year.
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