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on to the on-line petition to endorse the recommendations
of The BioInitiative Report.
The EMR Policy Institute is putting forward this petition
to endorse the recommendations of the BioInitiative Working
Group Report. We are seeking support from other organizations
whose missions call for responsible public health policy for
children, for workers and for the general public both where
they work and where they reside. We are also seeking the endorsement
of individuals to call for tougher EMR safety policy globally
as spelled out in the report: BioInitiative Report: A
Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard
for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF). BioInitiative
Petition French translation
Action
Alert March 19, 2008: Please FAX staff members of
House Committees responsible for health research and policy.
Your request is for the chairmen and ranking members of those
committees to join Congressman Peter Welch of Vermont in calling
for federal action on electromagnetic and radiofrequency radiation
health research.
E-mail
us at info@emrpolicy.org the
let us know you have sent your letters so we can follow up.
Click
on each link below. Add your name, your address and the date
to each of these letters. Print each one out. FAX to the number
given at the top of each letter.
Each letter
will be distributed to the necessary staff members who will
forward your request to the chairman and ranking member of
the subcommittees for which they work.
- Letter
to the majority staff members of the House Committee on
Education and Labor and Its Subcommittees.
- Letter
to the minority staff members of the House Committee on
Education and Labor and Its Subcommittees.
- Letter
to the majority staff members of the House Committee on
Energy and Commerce and Its Subcommittees.
- Letter
to the minority staff members of the House Committee on
Energy and Commerce and Its Subcommittees.
- Letter
to the majority staff members of the House Committee on
Science and Technology.
- Letter
to the minority staff members of the House Committee on
Science and Technology.
Complete
text of Welch “Dear Colleague” letter
Congressman Welch Contact Person – Peter Ambler 202-225-4115
peter.ambler @mail.house.gov
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Background – Request for Letter to Agencies
Re: Please Take Action to Protect the Public from Electromagnetic
Radiation Hazards
Need - The American public is unprotected from adverse biological
effects from electromagnetic radiation emanating from devices
such as power lines, cell phones and antenna base stations,
wireless internet, TV and FM broadcast towers and radar.
Worse, Federal Law prevents local governments from acting
to protect residents from this radiation. The limits set
by the FCC at the urging of industry are 1 to 4 thousand
times too lenient to prudently protect humans from adverse
health effects ranging from Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative
diseases, reproductive problems, sleep reduction, slowed
ability of the body to repair damage, interference with
immune function, cancer and electrohypersensitivity.
It is past time for the U.S. to step-up and take a leadership
role in this research area. US health agencies should be
developing replicable, transparent, independent peer-reviewed
testing protocols and the research to provide the necessary
data endpoints that will alleviate the continued ambiguity
and uncertainty about human health impacts from exposure
to electromagnetic and radiofrequency radiation.
References:
www.bioinitiative.org
www.emrpolicy.org,
DVD of May 10, 2007 Congressional Staff Briefing: Wireless
& Broadcast Radiation Pollution - A U.S. Regulatory
Health Issue. The briefing was hosted by Vermont Congressman
Peter Welch and presented by The EMR Policy Institute.
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