Katie Singer

EMR Policy

December, 2010

Suppose you learned that if certain corporations want to do business, a federal

law mandates that your town cannot refuse based on the potential for these corporations

to do environmental harm. You can only refuse business if you don’t like how a

company’s equipment looks or if the equipment’s appearance decreases property

values.

Further, these corporations can sue your city if you take too much time to

process their applications to install equipment or if they believe that you took health into

account when denying them a permit.

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Alsitair Philips

Daily Mail

30th November, 2010

As winter arrives with a vengeance, the last of this year’s glorious autumn leaves are falling in our parks and woodlands.

But this week came worrying evidence that Mother Nature is not the only force denuding our trees of their foliage.

Research in the Netherlands suggested that outbreaks of bleeding bark and dying leaves which have blighted the country’s urban trees may be caused by radiation from the Wi-Fi networks now so integral to life in offices, schools and homes.

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Daily Times

3rd November, 2010

ISLAMABAD: There is dire need to conduct a national study to assess cumulative environmental and health impacts of 26,000 cell phone towers installed in the country, Federal Minister for Environment Hameedullah Jan Afridi stated this while summing up debate on a motion moved by some members of the National Assembly on Tuesday.

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Magda Havis

10th October, 2010

October 10, 2010.  Pick of the Week #14 is based on a thoroughly researched and carefully crafted document (The Challenge of Non-Ionizing Radiation:  A Proposal for Legislation) written by Karen A. Massey (Project Attorney for Natural Resources Defense Council) and published in the Duke Law Journal (Volume 1979, No. 1, 86 pp).  This paper will be of interest to policy analysts, lawyers, member of Congress, and all the agencies that currently have pieces of the electromagnetic puzzle in the United States and elsewhere.

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