For more information click here.

• Web Site to Be Closed March 31, 2000. Click here for more information.
• Link to Electricity's dirty little secret (stray voltage) added to web site.
• Creating Healthy Places In Sacred Spaces by James Beal added to web site.
• New links added to Cell Phones/Towers & Radio Frequency Radiation section of web site.
• Link to EMR-EMF@onelist.com, a new unmoderated and open mailing list for the discussion of electromagnetic radiation and health, added to web site.
• Link to information on Low-Emission Computers from Institute for Human Development/AzTAP added to web site.
• New Personal Stories added to web site.
• United Kingdom Childhood Cancer Study & Responses added to web site.

EMR-EMF@onelist.com is an open unmoderated mailing list for the discussion of electromagnetic radiation (EMR), including but not limited to, power line electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and radiofrequency radiation (RFR) from cell phones and cellular transmission towers, with particular emphasis on the health effects of such radiation. For more information and to join EMR-EMF@onelist. com click here.

EMF-L

EMF-L is a moderated mailing list maintained by Roy L. Beavers It's mission was/is to "Shine the Light" on all aspects of the EMF problem. For more information and to join EMF-L click here. 

The program could prove very helpful to any who face the prospect of a new power line being placed in their neighborhood. It permits rapid calculation of the EMF exposure which the power line specifications will create along the line corridor. It also permits prospective buyers to calculate the EMF before purchasing a home near a power line.

Click here for further information and to download EMFCALC. 

In order to keep up with the latest news on the EMF health issue we require information. If you are involved with an EMF struggle in your neighbourhood or at your school please let us know about it so we can include the information on our web site. We are particularly interested in hydro line struggles and “power line frequency fields” information, since the cell phone issue is now starting to dominate the EMF agenda and our web site grew out of a hydro line struggle adjacent to a school. Also, contributions to our "Quotable Quotes" section below are appreciated.

We want to keep our bibliography comprehensive and up to date but we are not able to monitor all the EMF Journals or conferences and depend on news coverage and other involved persons to keep us informed of new studies. If you know of any studies (new or old) that should be in the bibliography please provide us with the bibliographic citations.

We also provide links to other relevant web sites. If you know of other web sites that you think should be included in our “Other EMF Web Sites” section please let us know.

As well, if you are an organization that publishes a newsletter or operates a restricted access web site on the subject we invite you to donate a subscription or access to us. If you have other information resources that you can provide to us, that would also be appreciated. As a volunteer-based service we depend on donations of such resources. 

• "I am now convinced that EMFs pose a health hazard. There is a statistical association between magnetic fields and cancer that goes beyond the shadow of reasonable doubt. I think there is clear evidence that exposure to EMFs increases the risk for cancer. This is most clear with leukemia and brain tumours, but in the residential studies, statistical significance increased for all kinds of cancer. And we're just beginning to have a whole body of evidence that reproductive cancers are increased by exposure."

Dr. David Carpenter, former Executive Secretary of the New York Power Lines Project and now Dean of the State of New York School of Public Health

• "In the Department of Health, we've been answering questions about the dangers by telling people to avoid fields at the level of 3 mG. The utilities recently complained to the governor's office about it and the governor has tried to make us stop saying this when people call. But we feel strongly that we can't just pass the buck the way they do. After all, we're responsible for the public health."

Patti Miller, Washington State Department of Health EMF Task Force

• "In summary, I believe that there is ample evidence that EMF exposure is associated with increased cancer in humans."

Dr. Sam Milham, Washington State Department of Health

• "In all my years of looking at chemicals, I have never seen a set of epidemiological studies that remotely approached the weight of evidence that we're seeing with ELF electromagnetic fields. Clearly there is something here."

Martin Halper, Director of Analysis and Support, Environmental Protection Agency (United States)

• "Based on the data base we have right now, I think the probability of hazards to human health from exposure to EMFs is high. It has been pretty well accepted by most scientists now.... The issue is not whether there is biological effects or possible harm, but at what level and what duration of exposure - that question we have not answered."

Dick Phillips, Director of Experimental Biology Division, Environmental Protection Agency (United States)

• We will proceed on the assumption that there is a connection between exposure to lower frequency magnetic fields and cancer, in particular, childhood cancer."

Swedish National Board of Industrial and Technical Development

• "From available epidemiological and laboratory data, it appears both prudent and responsible to set limits on permissable future [EMF] exposures."

United States National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements