The following is a compilation of what government, public health and environment organizations and officials, independent scientists, online health advocacy groups and activists are advocating around the world in response to the proliferation of electromagnetic fields, and especially 2.4 GHZ microwave radiation.  EMF Safety Network

• Resolutions: 8
• Wi-Fi: 37
• Other EMF and RF Actions and Concerns: 19
• Electrical Sensitivity: 19
• Call Towers and Antennas: 22
• Environment: 8
• Cell Phones: 35

180 Studies and Documents listed under the following headings:

Science: International Studies

• Alzheimer's (2)
• Attention Deficit Disorder (1)
• Brain Tumours / Acoustic Neuromas (37)
• Breast Cancer (2)
• Cancers (12)
• Cardiovascular diseases (3)
• Cell Death (3)
• Depressive mood disturbances, lethargy, appetite disturbances (2)
• DNA damage (3)
• Electrosensitivity (3)
• Epilepsy (1)
• Immune Disfunction, chronic allergic responses and inflammatory responses (2)
• Impaired fertility (11)
• Lung cancer and cancer of the respiratory organs (1)
• Mechanisms re the above (5)
• Melanoma (1)
• Neurological and behavioural effects (3)
• Prenatal damage, miscarriages, birth defects (9)
• Testicular and Uterine cancer (1)
• Thyroid and hormone disruption (2)
• Tinnitus (1)

Cell Mast / Tower Studies (13)

Key Documents

• Havas (5)
• Johansson (3)
• Carlo (2)
• Goldsworthy (3)
• Lai (2)
• Kane (1)
• Trower (3)
• Secret Intelligence Document (1)
• Blackman (1)
• Oberfeld (1)

More Key Documents (38)

Wi-Fi Studies (2)

Reading and Links

Early research

There are many, many informational materials available online on the issue of EMF and RF, and it is almost impossible to keep up with the news. Therefore, this collection is a work in progress. With this understanding, feel free to share these in whole or in part: 

Links for 2011 - 2012, separated into different categories as follows

• Resolutions/ Warnings /Advisories:                  Page 1 (20 links) 
• Reports/ Reviews:                                            Page 4 (20 links) 
• Litigation/ Legislation:                                       Page 7 (52 links) 
• Studies:                                                            Page 15 (41 links) 
• Schools:                                                           Page 22 (9 links) 
• Articles:                                                            Page 24 (12 links) 
• Video Presentations:                                        Page 25 (6 links) 
• Low EMF/RF Zones /EHS Accommodations:   Page 26 (5 links)

If not otherwise stated, limits apply to entire frequency range: ca. 600 to 3000 MHz.

Report of the Unlicensed Devices and Experimental Licenses Working Group

• Introduction

"The primary mission of the Unlicensed Devices and Experimental Licenses Working Group ("UEWG" or "Working Group") was to examine the Commission's rules and policies regarding the operation of unlicensed low power transmitting devices and the authorization of experimental licenses under Part 5. With regard to unlicensed devices, this review was conducted to determine the current status of unlicensed device operation, including available spectrum, interference potential, types of devices, applications, and regulatory models, with a view towards identifying changes or alternative approaches for regulating unlicensed devices that might promote more efficient and productive use of the spectrum. The Experimental Radio Service (ERS) was also examined to determine the extent to which improvements can be made that would further encourage innovation and technical development.

"The work of the UEWG included examining the comments filed in response to the Public Notice issued by the Spectrum Policy Task Force on June 6, 2002, and the comments and statements made by the participants at the Public Forum held on August 1, 2002."

• Unlicensed Devices (pages 4 to 18)  
• NB Page 5:    2. Non-interference Requirement   The basic premise of all Part 15 unlicensed operation is that unlicensed devices cannot cause interference to licensed operations nor are they protected from any interference received. The operational parameters for unlicensed operation are set forth in Section 15.5 of the rules, as follows:

• (a) Persons operating intentional or unintentional radiators shall not be deemed to have any vested or recognizable right to continued use of any given frequency by virtue of prior registration or certification of equipment
  
• (b) Operation of an intentional, unintentional, or incidental radiator is subject to the conditions that no harmful interference is caused and that interference must be accepted that may be caused by the operation of an authorized radio station, by another intentional or unintentional radiator, by industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) equipment, or by an incidental radiator.
• (c) The operator of a radio frequency device shall be required to cease operation of the device upon notification by a Commission representative that the device is causing harmful interference.  Operation shall not resume until the condition causing the harmful interference has been corrected.

• Experimental Licenses (pages 18 to 23)

Commentary by Libby Kelley:

"The FCC has always stated that it does not regulate signal interference problems for "unlicensed devices," as Part 15 states. When people have interference problems that affect medical devices, garage doors, electronic beds, etc., they are on their own.

"Many years ago, an independent RF engineer tested RF signals coming off Sutro Tower, a 999 foot tower loaded with antennas that transmitted up to 50 miles with combined RF emissions at about 30 Megawatts at that time, on Twin Peaks in the middle of San Francisco. Many residents in that area were complaining of garage doors and electronic key locking devices malfunctioning. The independent engineer traced the source to the very powerful RF emissions from the antennas on Sutro Tower. This was at the time when people had cordless phones and microwave ovens in homes but it was before Wi-Fi routers and smart meters. The independent RF engineer went inside some of the homes below Sutro Tower and took measurements. He found that metal bed frames were reradiating high intensity RF signals from those Sutro Tower antennas. At that time, there was no Federal agency equipped to investigate this as EPA's 26 field offices that were fully staffed and equipped to assess civilian exposure conditions to antennas and towers were closed down in 1995, the year before the Federal Telecom Act passed, launching the Wireless Revolution. Someone must have realized that this service would be inundated with requests after that law went into effect, initiating the deployment of the wireless infrastructure, made up of wireless communications facilities every 1-3 miles began.

"The heart pacemakers were found to be operating at the same or harmonic frequency ranges as licensed antennas early in the Wireless infrastructure deployment in the mid 1990s. The device manufacturers redesigned these devices to operate at a different frequency. Hospitals in the greater Dallas /Fort Worth area experienced a forced shutdown of sensitive monitoring devices the day the telecom companies in that area tested their wireless cellular network. The hospitals had not known that the frequency band their equipment used had been sold to a telecom company. The popular press assures us the potential for mechanical signal interference has been solved. Yet, we still hear about interference with pacemakers, defibrillators, baby monitors, etc. The public is not protected.

"As for licensed carriers, they are protected under P 15 of the FCC rules. You may have heard about FCC's handling of a signal interference problem between two licensed carriers of satellite based communications systems - a GPS system and LTE Squared, a new 4th generation wireless broadband service. Since the GPS company was licensed first, the 4G company had to cease transmitting signals that were interfering with the GPS carrier. FCC licenses these companies in exchange for being paid and that enables the companies to transmit signals using a particular bandwidth in a particular geographical area for communications purposes The telecom companies 'own the air.' "

Elizabeth Kelley, MA
Arizonans for Safer Utility Infrastructure
 wwwelectromagneticsafety.org

300MHz-300GHz in uW/cm2 (microwatts/cm2)

• Canada, USA
• China, Russia, Italy, France (Paris), Poland Hungary
• Switzerland / Switzerland Precautionary Limit for Sensitive Areas (Children, Elderly, Medically-challenged) 
• Belgium (Brussels, Wallonia, Flanders), Bulgaria, Luxembourg
• Lichtenstein
• Austria (Salzburg) Indoor-Outdoor
• Cosmic Background

Michael Bevington sells this Summary for a small fee to support the UK charity Electrosensitivity UK.  It is an excellent resource. 

"Electromagnetic-Hypersensitivity is categorised as a multisymptomatic 'el-allergy' in the Nordic classification of 2000. Its symptoms are 'certainly real' and it can be a 'disabling condition' (W.H.O., 2005). It was first recorded in the mid 20th-century as an occupational illness, but recently it has spread into the general population through environmental exposure from increasing levels of electro-magnetic fields and radiation. This Summary introduces current research on this syndrome, covering EM-Sensitivity and EM-Hypersensitivity. It includes tables of symptoms, EMF sources and exposure guidelines, along with references to scientific studies.

"Following sensitisation, Michael Bevington, a trustee of the charity ElectroSensitivity UK, found few doctors with the range of knowledge to give full help. This Summary aims to meet that need and to help the growing number of people who have become sensitised to EMFs and EMR . . .

"Recent developments in the scientific understanding of ES and EHS have led to differing views in several areas. In addition, the varied experiences and symptomatology of each sufferer make a consensus difficult on some individual aspects, such as treatments and shielding.

This Summary, therefore, aims to present a range of views on the grounds that they differ more in emphasis than in fundamentals.

"This Summary is dedicated to all ES and EHS sufferers, especially those who have lost family, friends, homes or jobs through their illness, and to all doctors and scientists trying to help them."