Congressional Staff Briefing - Need to Protect Human Health From RF Radiation
May 10 - 11, 2007 - Washington, D.C.
Deb Carney recently went to Washington, D.C. to try and educate Congress that the RF radiation limits do not protect us from long-term radiation, as well as what the Lake Cedar Group, Allard/Salazar Act of Congress has done to our community.

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All Colorado Delegation Staff and particularly the Health and Telecom Staff Members

Deb Carney
Vice President EMR Policy Institute http:///www.emrpolicy.org
Attorney for CARE (umbrella HOA for 9,000 Colorado residents)

Thursday, May 10, 2007 from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
U.S. Capitol Room HC-5

Inadequacy of U.S. Federal Policy Protecting the Environment and Health from harmful effects of Radiofrequency (RF) radiation.

We Are Unprotected: High Powered TV & FM Broadcast Radiation on Lookout Mtn.
(To see the entire presentation, click here...)

We only had about 15 staffers during this briefing as a bill on the Iraq war came up for a vote during the same time. Staffers from Perlmutter, Degette, Salazar and Allard's office attended (Allard's aide left before I spoke).

Stephen Plevniak of DeGette's office came up to me and asked me to call. (DeGette is on a commerce committee and Commerce controls the FCC. My daughter, Sonia Moen, helped us with the powerpoint and reported one of the staffers actually got terry eyed when I told the audience about the Act of Congress at the end of my presentation.

Norbert Hankin, EPA Environmental Scientist-Radiation Office of Radiation and Indoor Air attended and was very surprised and interested in the CSU study.

Carol Hatfield, EPA Legislative Fellow with Vermont Congressman Peter Welch (on Committee in charge of EPA) attended and visited with us extensively.

I learned of even more evidence accumulating on evidence of the hazards from this radiation.

Key presentations were also conducted by the following experts: (To view each presentation, click on the underlined link below:

Other Key Congressional Meetings:

Senator John Kerry
Meeting with Health Staff Aaron Jenkins-May 11th, joined by Diana Warren, Mass. We told Aaron that the Inadequacy of U.S. Federal Policy Protecting the Environment. We requested a hearing on this issue BEFORE the RF limits are made even more lenient and told him about the draft legislation putting standard setting in the hands of the EPA and funding the EPA to do research on this issue. ( He wants a copy). I left my copy of Len Aitkins documentary film, Broadcast Blues, with his office. Diana left Blake Levitt's book and several others. Aaron indicated that he would get to these materials during the 1 week recess that begins May 27.

Senator Allard-Sam Tatevosyan
I told Sam that I was not here to talk about how we felt about the legislation, we abhor it. My message was that the bill Allard pushed through opens the door for 23 additional high powered HDTV antennas and must be closed so that our community is not destroyed.

Sam asked if these could all go on the LCG tower? I explained that the RADIATION was the problem. That LCG's promises that the RF would be reduced were fiction, counter to Jeffco's independent consultants and based on 8 TV stations. I left a copy of KWGN's pleading in court showing how KWGN is using this law on their own tower. I gave him the list of the other antennas that could locate here. He seemed to be under the impression that it was difficult to get a tower permit from the FCC. I explained that even I could probably get a tower permit, my neighbor could get one and that the FCC has categorically excluded Lookout Mountain from environmental requirements by declaring it an "antenna farm." Sam wanted to know if the FCC was advocating building more towers. The FCC is not advocating this but there is nothing preventing more towers from being constructed. I showed him an example of language that could close the loophole.

I gave Sam the powerpoints and testimony of Dr. Kelly, Dr. Frankle, Murry Wynes, PhD Immunology affidavit and Prof Burch's statement that the CSU report shows biological responses of Lookout Mountain residents to the broadcast radiation at levels 100 times below FCC standards as well as an index to the massive amounts of health hazard testimony in the record.

Sam said Golden's condemnation action motivated Allard to act and that Allard has said he will continue to monitor the situation and he will.

No further promises were made.

Representative Tom Tancredo
Before the briefing, I ran into Rep. Tom Tancredo in the basement. I told him that the legislation contained a loophole that could let an additional 23 high power HDTV antennas. He expressed surprise. I told him that I was meeting with his Chief of Staff, Mac Zimmerman, May 11th. At this meeting, Mac apologized that his staffer could not be at the briefing because he was in surgery.
I gave Mac a mini briefing.

Mac told me that Golden's condemnation action really upset Tancredo. Mac knew that the Allard bill had passed the Senate but that it was not on the schedule when Tancredo left to attend a memorial function in Colorado. Mac made it clear that Tancredo does not have the clout to change this legislation.

I stopped by all the Colorado Delegation offices and dropped off flyers for the briefing.