Denise Bleiler Named as 2026 Susie Shimek Radon Hero Award Recipient
At the CRCPD National Conference in May 2026, Denise Bleiler was named the recipient of the Radon Hero Award, a recognition give by CRCPD for outstanding contribution. The presentation read:
Denise has demonstrated an extraordinar…
Indoor Air Radon Testing Rate and Its Relationships with Various Socioeconomic and Public Health Factors in Georgia, USA
Personnel from the Georgia Radon Program and their allied programs and laboratories have published a statistical research article, using 134,496 short-term indoor air radon test r…
Colorado: Building Technical Capacity Successes
By Margaret Horton
The Colorado Radon Program awards pass-through grants to local public health agencies and other non-profit organizations in Colorado to conduct local radon outreach and education. Over the past few years, 11 local public health staf…
California Radon Program Initiates Library Participating in Providing Free Access to Digital Radon Monitors
From an interview with Dale Parks, State Radon Officer, CDHP Indoor Radon Program
In this its first year of the program development, already around 300 libraries have received the digital rad…
Nevada’s Cancer Plan 2026 – 2030 Aims to Reduce Cancer by Reducing Exposure to Radon
Nevada’s recent cancer plan for 2026-2030 focuses on radon exposure as a direct link to cancer and lists goals for reducing radon exposures. Chris Kelly, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension – Radon Education…
Colorado Cancer Coalition’s new 2026—2030 Colorado Cancer Plan has eight goals to reduce cancer risk and improve care statewide. Radon is addressed in Goal 5 - Decrease Environmental Exposures That Lead to Cancer.
The Environmental Exposures section of the plan explains what radon is and that “It i…