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The Illinois Emergency Management Agency is urging all residents to test their home for radon. Radon has been found in nearly 40% of the homes tested in Illinois.
Director Alicia Tate-Nadeau attributes over 1,000 cases of lung cancer in Illinois to radon. She cites home tests as a simple and inexpensive way to detect it, specifically in older buildings and new constructions. To raise awareness about the risks of radon, the Agency and the American Lung Association of Illinois have announced two statewide contests for creative students in high school and middle school. Tags: ....
Some sort of document and move more than $270 million from fema to some other purposes? we don t think he does, but he s going to assert iepa authority, but it s different to make the case there s an emergency on the border. the emergency is taking care of the women and children that turned themselves in voluntary. will you challenge that decision? yes, with he absolutely will. we had this fight over the last couple weeks where he was going to divert some foreign aid, again the same idea, citing iepa and he relented, thank goodness because there was bipartisan push back. i think there will be again. thank you for coming in. emergency steven prepared ....
Away from doing business with china. how do you receive that when you hear that from him? oh, we don t take that very well. i believe we re a capitalist country, and yes, the president has powers and can do certain things, you know. he can enact iepa, emergency powers act, but do you really want to tell us where to buy our goods the other thing, is there any chance that you re going to follow through with what he is saying he wants to mandate? you know, he is the president and he can say whatever he wishes to say, and he has all these powers behind him, but he also ought to look at the whole picture because, you know, the number one place we get apparel, for example, is china. there s a threat on china. the number two is vietnam, he s put a threat on vietnam. number three is india. ....
Of respect for chairman grassley and we work with him on a lot of things. but at the same time, the president s number one responsibility is to protect americans and that s exactly what he is doing. this is fully supported by the law and under the authorities of the president through the iepa provision. case law supports the action taken by the president and frankly if other people were stepping up and doing more the president wouldn t have to continue to look for ways to stop this problem on his own. we would love for congress to engage and we would love for mexico to step up. look, let s not forget that when people come across the southern border of mexico it takes them on average 21 days to get to our southern border. that gives them three weeks to apprehend these individuals. mexico has some of the strongest immigration laws. they have the ability to repatriot the individuals and put them back in their own country. ....
Trade right. in china it s all about china. they are perfectly capable of separating trade and defense as long as it plays to their equities not ours. to be scales great to see you in person. thank you bob scales is the chairman of the defense secretary. jim mattis combat task force. we re looking at live pictures now at theuous us security council s weapons use in syria. the russian u.n. envoy is speaking now. he s calling for investigators to fly to syria where russian troops will escort them to the area of the, what they call the alleged attack. up next reports from inside the iepa headed by scott pruitt is coming apart at the seams. i ll speak with current and former staffers about the drama surrounding their boss as they call a, quote, slow motion train wreck. - anncr: thankfully, prevagen helps your brain and improves memory. - dad s got all the answers. ....