Despite many benefits, Canada’s new Greener Homes Grant Program misses a critical opportunity to address the preventable lung cancer risk from the well-established fact that tightening a building envelope during energy retrofits can increase radon indoors. Radon-related lung cancer is the leading cause of lung cancer after smoking.
Multiple environment- and health-focused organizations and radon experts have submitted this open letter to Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan pointing out this gap and recommending that the Canada Greener Homes Grant ensure that:
The Grant program and its funded energy advisors and retrofitters make clear to the public the need to twin energy efficiency retrofitting with attention to radon.
After any energy retrofit, there is a test for radon.
Any grants and subsidies for home energy efficiency also cover radon mitigation
Canada’s new Greener Homes Grant Program: A missed opportunity to address preventable radon exposure
Despite many benefits, Canada’s new Greener Homes Grant Program misses a critical opportunity to address the preventable lung cancer risk from the well-established fact that tightening a building envelope during energy retrofits can increase radon indoors. Radon-related lung cancer is the leading cause of lung cancer after smoking.
Multiple environment- and health-focused organizations and radon experts have submitted this open letter to Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan pointing out this gap and recommending that the Canada Greener Homes Grant ensure that:
Download letter here: Open-Ltr-Re-Greener-Homes-Program-Missed-Opportunity-Prevent-Radon-Lung-Cancer-Risk
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