CTIA Wireless Association has sued to block San Francisco’s “Cell Phone Right to Know” ordinance, which would require retailers to post materials about cell phone radiation and safety measures next to devices, passed in July. The CTIA calls the law “alarmist and...
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PRESS RELEASE: EHT Calls for U.S. to put warning labels on cell phones
March 14, 2012 --- The Environmental Health Trust (EHT) lauds Israeli Knesset overwhelming passage of a proposed law requiring health-hazard warning labels on cell phones and calls on the U.S. to follow suit. The Israeli labels will read, “Warning - the Health...
PRESS RELEASE: EHT’s Practice Safe Phone Program Kicks Off 2012 Program With Dynamic Mother-Daughter Duo–Rhonda Salerno And Marena Salerno Collins
Staffing Hands On Multi-Media Booth At TEDx February 29, 2012 Center For The Arts Environmental Health Trust announces that Rhonda Salerno will be heading up the Safe Cell Phone Campaign of Jackson for Spring 2012, presenting an interactive media booth to the TEDx...
PRESS RELEASE: The Economist—and the Truth About Microwave Radiation Emitted from Wireless Technologies
December 28, 2011 - In its unsigned commentary on September 3, 2011, “Worrying about Wireless”, The Economist makes a number of technical errors and misleading statements about microwave radiation that we write to correct. The governments of more than a dozen nations...
PRESS RELEASE: Environmental Health Trust Reveals Risky Patterns of Cell Phone Use by Middle Schoolers
Important New Zealand paper and UK Charity MobileWise Scientific Review: Cell Phone Use Today Places Children At Risk Cited Among Several Reports BERKELEY, CA – November 9, 2011 – Key figures in the arena of cell phone safety spoke today at a California City Council...
PRESS RELEASE: Updated Cell Phone Study Deeply Flawed, Say Experts
Environmental Health Trust and Other Experts Expose Major Flaws in New Danish Study Claiming No Significant Cancer Risks from Cell Phone Use. “Unsurprising, biased and misleading,” says EHT President, cancer epidemiologist, Devra Davis, PhD, MPH JACKSON, WY -- October...
PRESS RELEASE: New study shows cell phones exceed FCC exposure limits by as much as double for children
A scholarly article on cell phone safety published online October 17, 2011, in the journal Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine reports the finding that cell phones used in the shirt or pants pocket exceed FCC exposure guidelines and that children absorb twice as much...
PRESS RELEASE: Cell Phones and Cancer: Should We Be Concerned?
October 13, 2011 - Researchers, a former patient, a local legislator and others will be at the University of Southern Maine this coming Monday afternoon, October 17, to help increase knowledge and awareness of the potential risks of cell phone use. The event, which is...
PRESS RELEASE: Environmental Health Trust Responds to CTIA’s Lawsuit to Prevent San Francisco’s “Right to Know” Ordinance from Taking Effect
EHT Founder Says Wireless Industry Group’s Action Unjustified JACKSON, WY -- October 11, 2011 – Devra Davis, PhD, MPH, President of Environmental Health Trust, has debunked a lawsuit filed by the CTIA, a wireless industry group representing AT&T and Verizon among...
PRESS RELEASE: Environmental Health Trust to Unveil Worldwide Cell Phone Safety Recommendations at Istanbul Symposium on October 7-8
EHT Founder to Present Compilation of Guidelines Adopted Around the World to Minimize Potential Health Risks from Cell Phone Use Devra Davis, PhD, MPH, President of Environmental Health Trust, will unveil a global summary of cell phone safety laws and...