The agency said its testing was continuing and that, if necessary, homes would be fitted with devices to clean the air. But at the urging of industry groups, the Trump administration has stalled some of those moves. In Johnson County, a parents’ group co-founded by Mrs. Rhinehart, If It Was Your Child, has traced at least 58 childhood cancer cases since 2008. Both the national and Indiana average are fewer than 18 pediatric cancers per 100,000 children. Even so, he stressed that there was little research linking childhood cancers to TCE.

Source: New York Times January 02, 2019 22:41 UTC