Subject: (Kelley) EMR Network Article in Microwave News (fwd)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 112030 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 21:32:48 -0800
From: Libby Kelley
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: EMR Network Article in Microwave News
The EMR Network wishes to thank Louis Slesin, Editor, Microwave News for
granting permission to make the following news article from the
November/December 98 edition of Microwave News article for distribution
December , 1998
Activists Launch New Group as EMR Alliance Fades Away
There is a new national grassroots organization to voice concerns about
public exposures to electromagnetic radiation. A group of activists from
across the country founded the EMR Network over the weekend of November 14-15
in Fairlee, Vermont.
“We’re going to concentrate on RF/MW radiation issues, “ Libby Kelley,
the executive director of the network, told Microwave News. She explained that
the group would address public health issues related to cell phones and towers,
radio and TV broadcasting and radar.
Power line issues will also be on the network’s agenda. “We’re not
abandoning EMFs said Blake Levitt of New Preston, CT. Levitt, a journalist and
the author of Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer’s Guide to the Issues and How
to Protect Ourselves, helped organize the Vermont meeting, along with
Kelley and
Janet Newton of Cabot, VT, a cell tower opponent.
The network has emerged as the EMR Alliance in New York City, a group
established by power line opponents, has become dormant over the last year.
Cathy Bergman, the alliance’s president, was invited to the Vermont meeting,
but did not attend.
In recent months, phone calls and E-mail to the alliance have often
gone unanswered. Network News, its quarterly newsletter, has not appeared
since
the fall of 1997. Bergman declined to be interviewed, but in a press release
issued by the network, she said, “I pass the torch” to the new group.
Kelley already heads the Citizens of Marin for Sensible Communications
Planning (COMSENSE) in Novato, Ca, which has opposed cell towers. In addition,
she is the executive director of the Ad Hoc Association (AHA) of Parties
Concerned About the FCC RF Health and Safety Rules, based in Olympia, WA. The
AHA has petitioned the federal appeals court in New York City to overturn the
FCC’s RF/MW radiation exposure limits (see p.18 of MWN N/D98 and N/D97, J/A98
and S/098).
Although most of the 20 activists at the Fairlee meeting have been
involved in mobile phone antennas siting disputes, the new group is “not just
concerned with call towers,” said Carole Lomond from her home in Golden, CO, on
her return from Vermont. Lomond has been battling a plan to build several
digital television (DTV) broadcast towers on Lookout Mountain outside of
Denver, which is already the site of a dozen high-power radio and TV towers and
hundreds of other antennas (see MWN, J/A98). Another founding member of the
network, Sharon Judge of Sandwich, MA, is working to shut down the U.S. Air
Force’s PAVE PAWS missile defense radar on Cape Cod (p.16 and MWN J/F98).
Besides offering information to concerned citizens and advice to
activists, Kelley said, the Network will press for “credible, impartial
science” on the possible health effects of non-ionizing radiation. The network
will lobby for federally funded research on possible health effects of wireless
telephone radiation, to be directed by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The new group will be active in the legislative arena as well: It is
urging passage of S. 2514, Senator Patrick Leahy’s (D-VT) bill to repeal
federal preemption of antenna siting (see MWN S/O98). Aides to Leahy and to
Sen. James Jeffords (R-VT>) attended the Fairlee meeting as observers.
The network will also argue for a revision of the FCC’s RF/MW
exposure limits. A statement adopted in Vermont contends that the available
scientific evidence” should prompt policymakers to seek more stringent
standards immediately.
For more information on the EMR Network, contact Libby Kelley at
936-B Seventh Street, Suite 206, Novato, CA 94945, (415) 892-1863. Fax (415)
892-1863, e-mail: info@emrnetwork.org, Web: http://www.emrnetwork.org.
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Reprinted with permission from Microwave News, based in New York City
Archive provided courtesy of WaveGuide, http://www.wave-guide.org
Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html