Dear Environmental Protection Agency - About that Thunder Over Louisville.....

The following was sent to the Environmental Protection Agency via their web portal - have not received a response to date:

To Whom it May Concern -

Many Louisville citizens have concerns regarding the annual event held to kickoff the Kentucky Derby Festival, "Thunder Over Louisville" - one of the largest fireworks displays in the Nation. This event is staged over the Ohio River - the #1 most polluted river in North America. From Thunder's website, "To assemble a show the size of Thunder, Zambelli Internationale utilizes eight tractor trailers filled with nearly 60 tons of fireworks shells. The physical setup includes 250 tons of launching tubes, some as high as 10 feet with a diameter of 1½ feet. Two million pounds of sand will pack the firing tubes on 1,800 feet of barges. Almost 700 miles of wire cable connecting 20 firing boards are tied to the command post for synchronization to the music. This is the largest show the Zambellis perform each year, and the Zambellis are the largest fireworks family in the world." - this event generally draws a half million spectators as well as private and rented boats which also view the spectacle nearby from the river itself.

Is Zambelli Internationale currently utilizing Perchlorate free eco-friendly pyrotechnics above the Ohio River? Are they in adherence with EPA guidelines and regulations for pyrotechnics over bodies of water? Has there been an assessment on the detrimental impact to local wildlife habitats, marine life, quality of life, water and air quality for those living near and downstream from this production? Have there been any studies regarding the air & water quality before and after this event? Are local Urban residents living within close proximity to this event informed of the health hazards and what the health impact will be on these residents following this display? The Consumer Confidence Reports for the Ohio River do not paint a pretty picture - I'm hoping the EPA will take action to ensure this devastated river as well as nearby residents suffer no further unnecessary assaults merely for the sake of "entertainment"when there are more eco-friendly options available.

I would like assurances from the EPA that these conditions are being monitored, regulations enforced and the health and well-being of surrounding residents and environment are taken into account and addressed prior to this year's event which is on April 23, 2016.

To date our local Government appears to have turned a blind eye to the environmental and health ramifications of Thunder Over Louisville without accountability or legal recourse "with no strings attached" which is why I have contacted you. Many urban residents, hospitals and offices have no choice but be subjected to the noise exposure and toxins produced by Thunder.  The health ramifications from this event can be devastating to those who are unable to temporarily relocate such as the elderly, the disabled, those with respiratory ailments, those with young children and the infirmed.

I would like to request EPA oversight on this event to ensure all precautions are taken to prevent further damage to our Urban, surrounding and downstream residents' health and environment, including but not limited to rigorous adherence to all State and Federal Regulations currently in place for pyrotechnic displays over bodies of water, the impact to nearby residents and those downstream. The Ohio does, after all, lead out to the Mississippi and on to the Gulf of Mexico which is already environmentally challenged.

http://badwaterjournal.com/Bad_Water_Journal/Thunderstruck.html

Thank you for taking the time to address this.

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From the U.S. National Library of Medicine:

Children seem to be particularly susceptible to the harmful effects of ambient air pollution. Compared with adults, children have poor defences against PM and gaseous air pollutants, have a differential ability to metabolize and detoxify environmental agents, and have an airway epithelium that is more permeable to inhaled air pollutants. Also, children have a greater level of physical activity than adults; hence, their intake of air into the lungs is much greater than that of adults per day.  No studies involving paediatric patients were identified in this field.

Hopefully Louisville Metro Government will make concerted efforts to inform residents living nearby of current and future health ramifications and the projected medical costs associated with those conditions, issue advisories to those with respiratory ailments to take necessary precautions during and weeks following the event and issue public service announcements educating residents and attendees regarding precautionary measures to guard against hearing loss, respiratory failure, tinnitus,  trauma, neurological damage or other potential damages to their health and well being and most especially for the children attending this grand display of firepower.

Current presenting sponsors for this year's Thunder Over Louisville are LG&E, KentuckyOne Health (encompassing Flaget Memorial Hospital, University of Louisville Hospital, Frazier Rehab Institute, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, Jewish Hospital, Medical Center Jewish East, Our Lady of Peace, Saint Joseph Hospital, St. Mary & Elizabeth Hospital, Southern Indiana Rehab Hospital, Taylor Regional Hospital, Continuing Care Hospital and VNA Health at Home), Horseshoe Southern Indiana, Meijer, UPS, Valero Oil. and Ford (Thunder on the Ground).

Response received from the EPA today, March 8, 2016:

JT (Public Access)

From	JT (Public Access) support@publicaccess.zendesk.com

Mar 8, 8:35 AM

Thank you for your inquiry to the EPA Web site. Your request has been received by the Headquarters Public Access Service, a contractor operated reference and referral service.

We apologize for our delayed response. Due to unforeseen circumstances, your inquiry was not handled in a timely manner. We thank you for your patience while awaiting our response.

You are concerned about pollution from the "Thunder Over Louisville", and wonder if Zambelli Internationale currently utilizing Perchlorate-Free eco-friendly fireworks above the Ohio river.

Please be aware, the Public Access Service is a library reference and referral service and cannot provide regulatory guidance or applicability determinations. We are providing the information and referrals/contacts listed below so that you can seek that support directly from Agency program staff or other information services that can provide that assistance.

Your state environmental agency may be a better resource for this question. Many issues are regulated by the states themselves, and contacting the state directly may be the best action.

Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection may be helpful:http://dep.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx

If this office is unhelpful, please contact your EPA Regional office. Each regional office contains documentation and statistics on environmental issues specific to the states over which they have jurisdiction. EPA Region 4 serves Kentucky:http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/forms/contacting-epa-region-4-southeast

EPA in Kentucky: http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-kentucky

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Which per their suggestion was sent via email to 

To	envhelp envhelp@ky.gov  per this website:

http://dep.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx

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Received response from Bozzell, Derek A (EEC) (EEC) Derek.Bozzell@ky.gov

Ms. Vinch,

The pyrotechnic displays from events such as Thunder over Louisville are brief occurrences, but as you noted, they could result in releases of a number of metals and oxidizers such as potassium perchlorate.

The water intake for Louisville’s Crescent Hill Water Treatment Plant is downstream on the Ohio from the location where Thunder over Louisville has been held in previous years (We would assume it will also be held at that location this year.). The next surface water treatment plant downstream in Kentucky is located at Henderson, approximately 150 miles downstream. Ohio River flow volume at any location, including Louisville, varies hourly and daily, but it is reported by the US Geological Survey that the current flow of the Ohio River at Louisville is 14,457,345 gallons per minute.  In spite of the seemingly large amounts (tons) of fireworks that will be detonated at the display, lesser amounts of perchlorate and metals will be released as compared to the total fireworks volume and any resulting concentrations of contaminants further diluted by the large volume of river water. The concentration of perchlorate and metals in the Crescent Hill Treatment Plant intake is likely to briefly peak at a very low level and return to ambient levels within at most a few days. It is possible that any peaks that occur will be too low, as compared to normal conditions in the river, to even detect at the intake.  Crescent Hill and downstream water treatment plants routinely monitor intake and finished water for metals; as noted, they currently do not monitor for perchlorate. However, the metals routinely monitored, including samples taken before and after the Thunder over Louisville fireworks event, should act as a reasonable surrogate for concentrations of both metals and perchlorate that may be present in the Ohio River intake water.   

If you have further questions regarding the types of fireworks that Zambelli Fireworks uses, you may want to try contacting them directly at their corporate headquarters at 800-245-0397, or their nearest regional office in Ohio at 513-478-6475.  You may also want to try contacting the State Fire Marshal, which is the office that permits pyrotechnic displays, at 502-573-1702. 

Derek Bozzell

Environmental Compliance Specialist

Division of Compliance Assistance

300 Fair Oaks Lane, Frankfort, KY 40601

502-564-0323 x3246

Fax: 502-564-9720

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From: Vicky Vinch
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 11:02 AM
To: Bozzell, Derek A (EEC)
Subject: Re: Concerns Regarding Thunder Over Louisville

Thank you for your response, Mr. Bozzell - would it then be safe to assume if one catches and consumes fish from this area these fish would be safe for human consumption?  If not, are there appropriate fish consumption advisories placed in these areas to allow fishermen to make their own judgment calls?

Much appreciated!

Vicky

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From: Bozzell, Derek A (EEC) (EEC) <Derek.Bozzell@ky.gov>
To: Vicky Vinch
Sent: Thu, Mar 10, 2016 11:07 am
Subject: RE: Concerns Regarding Thunder Over Louisville

Ms. Vinch,

Perchlorate has been identified to bioaccumulate into aquatic organisms directly from water (bioconcentration) and through the food chain (biomagnification), but generally accumulated levels remain only as long as the exposure. As the level of perchlorate in the water or food goes down, the concentrations in the tissues fairly rapidly also go down. This is an important consideration when evaluating any detrimental effects from eating contaminated fish, fish may be contaminated but for a brief time whereas the fish advisories are determined based on long-term exposures. In fish themselves, the bioaccumulation factor has been determined to be 0.5, approximately half of the levels found in the water or their food will fairly rapidly (within days) appear in the fish. Compared to a number of other environmental contaminants, perchlorate would be considered to have such a low bioaccumulating factor as to not be a bioaccumulating substance of environmental concern.  For example, the environmental contaminant mercury may occur at 10,000 to 100,000 times greater concentration in the fish tissues than can be detected in the water (a bioaccumulation factor of 10,000 to 100,000), and once in the fish tissues essentially will stay at those levels for many years.

If you have any further concerns, please feel free to contact me.

Derek Bozzell

Environmental Compliance Specialist

Division of Compliance Assistance

502-564-0323 x3246

Fax: 502-564-9720

SIMPLIFYING COMPLIANCE, IMPROVING PERFORMANCE

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From: Vicky Vinch
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 11:31 AM
To: Bozzell, Derek A (EEC)
Subject: Re: Concerns Regarding Thunder Over Louisville

Thank you - I am looking at what I can find with regard to Louisville's Consumer Confidence Reports and this is the best I can come up with - the information is minimal at best:  - http://louisvillewater.com/sites/louisvillewater.com/files/user_uploads/pdf%20files/Annual%20Water%20Quality%20Report.pdf Are public advisories issued anywhere regarding immediate risks to fish consumption from this area immediately after Thunder?  I do see many people fish from this area.  I'd like to take my dog there but I don't want her to get sick if she drinks the water. She's previously gotten sick from drinking the water over at Beckley (The Parklands) - it's next to a sewage plant.  People fish there too.

Where would one locate amounts of perchlorate in the surface and ground water amounts in the Ohio at Louisville?  I'm also wondering why there are not fish advisories posted on the Indiana side of the Ohio or in Indiana at all at the Ohio?  I understand this is not your jurisdiction.  Also, in your opinion, is it prudent to continue to pump raw sewage into the Ohio and is that being addressed?  I do see work being done by MSD inland to upgrade CSO's. Lots of question, I know.  Appreciate any insights.  I will follow up with Zambelli & the Fire Marshall although I do not expect a reply from the Fire Marshall unless we've gotten a new one since the last time I'd contacted them.

Thanks,

Vicky

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From: Bozzell, Derek A (EEC) (EEC) <Derek.Bozzell@ky.gov>
To: Vicky Vinch
Sent: Thu, Mar 10, 2016 2:25 pm
Subject: RE: Concerns Regarding Thunder Over Louisville

Ms. Vinch,

For information regarding public advisories involving the Ohio River, please see the following Department for Environmental Protection websites:

·         Fish Consumption Advisories: http://water.ky.gov/waterquality/Pages/FishConsumption.aspx

·         Swimming Advisories: http://water.ky.gov/waterquality/Pages/SwimmingAdvisories.aspx

·         Indiana Advisories: http://www.in.gov/isdh/23650.htm

Perchlorates are not a regular monitoring parameter of Kentucky Pollution Discharge Elimination System (KPDES) permits, and, as such, I am not aware of any sources to find current or regular perchlorate levels.  

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have further questions.

Derek Bozzell

Environmental Compliance Specialist

Division of Compliance Assistance

502-564-0323 x3246

Fax: 502-564-9720

SIMPLIFYING COMPLIANCE, IMPROVING PERFORMANCE

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From: Vicky Vinch
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 2:52 PM
To: Bozzell, Derek A (EEC)
Subject: Re: Concerns Regarding Thunder Over Louisville

Thank you, Mr. Bozzell - I have followed the KY fish consumption & swim advisories somewhat regularly yet I rarely see postings at many public lakes.  It is saddening, to say the least.

In your opinion would you think it would be prudent to periodically test Kentucky waters for perchlorate levels?  Or in reality would it be futile since we already are aware of the mercury and PCB levels which will eventually kill us anyway?  Sorry to be so blunt - it's a known issue of mine I'm working on.

What is being done, if anything, to correct and/or control the Mercury/PCB levels in our water here in KY if you don't mind my asking (other than overseas outsourcing industries that cause them)?  

I do see work on MSD regarding the CSO's and that is encouraging.  Last questions, I promise.

Thanks,

Vicky

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From: Bozzell, Derek A (EEC) (EEC) <Derek.Bozzell@ky.gov>
To: Vicky Vinch
Sent: Thu, Mar 10, 2016 4:17 pm
Subject: RE: Concerns Regarding Thunder Over Louisville

Ms. Vinch,

Mercury is considered a hazardous waste under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and therefore its generation, storage, treatment and disposal are regulated.  Mercury is monitored and removed from water at wastewater treatment plants.  PCBs are managed under the federal Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), which addresses production, importation, use, and disposal. PCBs are monitored in Total Maximum Daily Load records.

Derek Bozzell

Environmental Compliance Specialist

Division of Compliance Assistance

502-564-0323 x3246

Fax: 502-564-9720

SIMPLIFYING COMPLIANCE, IMPROVING PERFORMANCE

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Thank you for the info.  It's not helping our fish and wildlife any, though.  (Nor humans nearby who are breathing this air).  I would word it more as "not regulated" or "supposed to be regulated", and "not managed"  I understand completely now.  Note:  no questions.

Will work on it.

Much appreciated.  You have been very helpful.  Thank you.

Vicky V.

Experts Implore Federal Government to Address RF Emissions Public Health Crisis

As our Government, healthcare and telecommunications companies continue to publicly deny adverse effect of RF emissions on children, parents, families and humans in general as well as our flora, marine life and fauna and continue to refuse to protect our health and well being, we are now seeing the FCC has been made well aware of these lethal effects with total disregard to the pleas of experts including medical professionals, attorneys, geophysicists, bioenvironmentalists and scholars worldwide, many of whom reside or did reside in the USA, many of whom with Government and Military positions.  Those of us with metal medical implants & devices or heavy metals in their bodies are being slowly cooked alive and no one will listen.

"Proposed Changes in the Commission’s Rules ) ET Docket No. 03-137
Regarding Human Exposure to Radiofrequency )
Electromagnetic Fields " -

From:
Whitney North Seymour, Jr.
 455 Lexington Avenue, Room 1721
 New York, New York 10017
 email: wseymour@stblaw.com
 Telephone: (212) 455-7640

Gabriel North Seymour
Gabriel North Seymour, P.C.
200 Route 126
Falls Village, CT 06031
Tel: 860-824-1412
Email: certioari@earthlink.net

Janet Newton, President 

P.O. Box 117 

Marshfield VT 05658 

E-mail: info@emrpolicy.org 

Telephone: (802) 426-3035

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Who is Whitney North Seymour?
Whitney North Seymour, Jr., Esq.
Retired Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP;
Former New York State Senator & United States Attorney, Southern District of NY
Co-Founder, Natural Resources Defense Council

He graduated Princeton University and Yale University Law School.  Seymour was independent counsel or special prosecutor in the case of Michael Deaver, a senior aide to President Ronald Reagan, who was convicted of perjury in 1987.

This document was dated November 13, 2013 and there were many, many other submissions to the FCC advising them of this same information, all of which they have chosen to disregard - some of the text below.  Please read the entire document here.  There are a number of audio presentations from experts worldwide imploring action to this public health crisis worldwide here.

Regarding those with implanted medical devices (such as the VP shunt implanted in my brain), he advised:

III. HARMFUL INTERFERENCE 

13. EMRPI reiterates that the FCC’s definition of “Harmful Interference” must be 
expanded if it is to be relevant to the ubiquitous environmental RF radiation exposure now present in Americans’ daily lives. 

14. FCC’s “Harmful Interference” definition must be expanded to include acute, 
chronic, or prolonged exposure to RF signals and emissions that endangers, degrades, obstructs or repeatedly interrupts biological functioning of a person, plant, animal or ecosystem, or results in adverse health effects, or malfunctioning of medical devices or equipment. EMRPI Comment page 13 Paragraph 55. 
15. “Harmful Interference that results in biological harm” is defined as “any negative change in a measurable biological, physiological or ecological parameter. “ 

16. The “Harmful Interference” definition must take into account the fact that RF radiation penetrates children and adults differently. 

17. “Harmful Interference” affects the 25 million Americans who now depend on implanted medical devices and medical equipment. “Harmful Interference” with a medical device should be defined as:

a. Exposure to electronics, metal detectors or wireless services that causes an FDA approved medical device such as a cardiac pacemaker, an insulin pump, a deep brain stimulator, a cochlear implant to malfunction and results in pain, bodily harm or death; 
b. Exposure to metal detectors and/or RF signals while a person is in a metal or electronic wheelchair and results in pain, bodily harm, negative health effects or death; 
c. Exposure to metal detectors and/or RF signals to a person with implanted metallic bone replacement devices that results in pain, bodily harm, negative health effects or death. 

18. Smart meters are some of the many devices that can cause such “Harmful Interference” that are described in Comments and affidavits filed in this proceeding. Various individuals filed Comments about RF interference with implants that should be heeded. Laddie W. Lawings, retired Naval Nuclear Inspector; Judi Hangarther, RN; Kate Reese Hurd; and Gary Olhoeft, PhD in Geophysics (in the EMRPI Comment).

19. Medtronics, manufacturer of medical implants, warns of harmful interference to implanted medical devices in uncontrolled or controlled environments at current levels.

20. “Cardiac pacemakers, defibrillators, and drug delivery systems…may exhibit improper operation when subjected to strong RF fields. …It is critical…that any new RF rules…ensure that RF exposure limits below 300 kHz do not cause harmful interference to implanted medical devices….” pg 7 Laddie W Lawings, retired Naval Nuclear Inspector.

21. The Mayo Clinic advises that cardiac pacemaker patients take precautions to prevent electromagnetic interference with the proper functioning their device: 

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/pacemaker/MY00276/DSECTION=what-you-can-expect 

COST ANALYSIS:

IV. COST ANALYSIS 

22. The FCC appears to be assuming that there will be a large cost to lowering its current RF safety limits. If setting RF safety limits much more restrictive than the current FCC RF safety limits has a substantial cost, the countries such as Switzerland, Russia, China, and others who use a 0.1 µW/cm2 RF safety limit would have experienced these costs. No such adverse cost to countries that allow 100 times lower RF safety limits has been substantiated.

23. As for the dollar cost of the health damage caused to millions of Americans from using RF safety limits that allow this radiation to interfere with the health and well-being of citizens, the responsibility and resources for compiling and comparing the dollar cost from lax vs. protective RF safety limits rest on the FCC and relevant Federal Agencies.

24. The EPA should be provided with the extensive Comments on health in this record that indicate damage at the present FCC-allowed levels of RF exposure and asked to provide the dollar value of this damage, insisted upon by the FCC. The FCC can then subtract the documented cost of requiring RF safety limits that are 100 times more protective based on what has happened in the countries using those RF limits and arrive at the cost of not acting to protect human health.

25. Federal Agencies put the economic value of a human life at $ 6-7.9 million. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/business/economy/17regulation.html?pagewanted=all

26. Substantial damage occurs when people are disabled from an environmental illness. The Annual Cost to the U.S. of Environmental Illness is between $57 billion and $397 billion. 

Muir & Zegarac-Charyl Zehfus Sept 16, 2013 filing of PMID 11744507 [PubMed-indexed for 

MEDLINE] PMCID: PMC1240624

27. Costs of some diseases associated in the peer-reviewed research record with EMR exposure that are found in academic journals and government and foundation resources are: 

• Autism - $137 Billion USD - Xuejun Kong, MD - Christopher McDougle, MD. N. Am J. 

Med. Sci. 6(3) 2013 

• Cancer - $125 billion USD - (2010) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21228314

• Cardiovascular Disease - $444 billion (2010) 

http://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/publications/AAG/dhdsp.htm

• Diabetes – Statistics from the new report of The International Diabetes Foundation: 

1. An estimated 5.1 million people died of diabetes-related complications in 2013. 

2. 17% of babies in 2013 were born to women with high blood sugar levels, a sign of gestational diabetes that will contribute to the global diabetes burden in years to come. 

3. More than 79,000 children developed Type 1 diabetes in 2013; that's up from 77,800 in 2011. 

4. The equivalent of $548 billion were spent on health care for diabetes patients around the world in 2013. 

5. China, India and the United States top the list for the most cases of diabetes per 

country; around 24.4 million Americans had the disease in 2013.

28. In addition to the host of diseases linked to EMR at current levels, electrohypersensitivity (EHS), which afflicts 3% of the population, often substantially disables these people. 

(Grassroots Environmental Education, Inc. View 97 filed 9/24/13).

29. On October 15, 2013, the French federal agency ANSES (National Agency for Food, Environment and Work Health Security) published an update to its 2009 report  http://www.anses.fr/sites/default/files/documents/PRES2013CPA18EN_0.pdf   on the state of knowledge on risk related to exposure to radiofrequencies “based on a review of the international scientific literature” stating that: 

. . . against a background of rapid development of technologies and practices, ANSES recommends limiting the population’s exposure to radiofrequencies – in particular from mobile phones – especially for children and intensive users, and controlling the overall exposure that results from relay antennas. It will also be further developing its work on electro-sensitive individuals, specifically by examining all the available French and international data on this topic that merits attention.

30. Numerous individual Comments on EHS such as Richard Meltzer, Shelley Master, Miriam Weber, M.D. Michele Hertz, Michael Schwaebe, Kevin Mottus, Heather Lane, Scott Spiegal, Kate Reese Hurd, Edna Willadsen, Diane Schou, Deborah Rubin, and many others are of record in this proceeding.

31. Commenter Kit Weaver presents documentation that Utilities, and others in the smart grid, smart meter and smart home industry are violating the ADA by subjecting people with electromagnetic sensitivity to RF radiation in their own homes. “The FCC should stipulate that no utility, government, or other entity can require installation of an RF-emitting device upon one’s property without consent.”

32. EMRPI strongly opposes the Reply of the Utilities Telecom Council (UTC) that calls for categorical exclusion of Smart Meter facilities from routine evaluation. There is no need to return to the dangerous concept of exclusion by category. There has been no FCC evaluation of the complex emissions scenarios that arise from wireless Smart Meter buildout. The FCC does not know what the radiation patterns and emissions levels are when antennas are clustered on apartment buildings or in neighborhoods where buildings are close to each other. 

 V. INSURANCE COMPANIES RECOGNIZE SUBSTANTIAL RISK OF DAMAGE 

CLAIMS 

33. Lloyd’s of London is excluding coverage for claims for negative health effects from RF 

radiation exposure as stated in the submitted affidavit of Michael Schwaebe, Professional 

Engineer, who swears to physiological effects experience by himself and observed in 13 of his 

clients: 

Two of the world's largest insurance companies, Lloyds and Swiss Re, have 

recommended to other insurance companies to write in exclusion clauses against 

paying compensation for illnesses caused by continuous long-term non-ionizing 

radiation exposure.[1,2] . The recent Austrian insurance company AUVA report 

confirms DNA-breaks caused by non-ionising radiation, but the report leaves many 

issues open. Remember what Swiss Re wrote in 2005? 

For the insurance industry, this standoff gives rise to an extremely 

dangerous risk of change composed of two parts: the classical development 

risk, that is, the possibility that new research findings will demonstrate 

electromagnetic fields to be more dangerous than has hitherto been 

assumed; and the sociopolitical risk of change, in other words, the 

possibility that changing social values could result in scientific findings 

being evaluated differently than they have been thus far. 

Update 24th September: This is bad news for those employers who expose their 

workers heavily to non-ionising radiation. Precedents: There are already several 

cases where the worker got compensation because their tumours etc., were caused 

by mobile phone& other occupational EMF exposure [1,2,3,4,5] . And the amount of cases will most likely increase: 

http://beyondradiation.blogs.com/mblog/2010/09/insurance-companies-do-not-cover-health-damage-caused-by-mobile-technologies-disconnect.html

 VI. CONCLUSIONS 
 34. EMRPI and the endorsed Commenters lay out evidence of widespread present disease and disability with the resultant medical bills and loss of work from over-radiating the public. The future economic impact on young children now being affected will ripple forward in time and amplify as the negative health effects multiply with their cumulative and ever-increasing exposure. 
35. The concept that thermal injury is “the only scientifically established mechanism of harm” for EMR and RF effects is simplistic and outdated. 
36. Biological Mechanisms are comprised of complex interrelationships at the microscopic level. The FCC must accommodate changes in scientific knowledge found in studies published since 1986 on mechanisms of non-thermal effects of EMR and RF radiation exposure to humans and the environment. 
37. The FCC must assess the research needs and gaps relating to potential biological and adverse health effects of wireless communications devices identified in the 2008 National Academies of Science Report 12036. 
38.  Recent research findings support continuing precautionary actions by various governments and agencies.  Current research findings support the concept of biologically-based EMR and RF exposure safety limits.
39.  NEPA mandates that it is time for the FCC to establish biologically-based EMR and RF Radiation Safety regulations.  The FCC must comply with NEPA requirements.  

40. The evidence of the need to revise FCC RF safety limits and exposure regulations to protect all members of the public are overwhelming.  The FCC's duty to protect the public is beyond dispute.  The Commission has failed to comply with the House Committee on Commerce's mandate to adopt "uniform, consistentent requirements, with adequate safeguards of

the public health and safety," and that these were to be "established as soon as possible." (H.R. 

Report No. 104-204, p. 94) This is a core duty imposed on this Commission. The 

Congressional Committee reiterated this expectation for emphasis on page 95 of House Report 

104-204: 

The Committee believes the Commission rulemaking on this issue (ET Docket 93-62) should contain adequate, appropriate and necessary levels of protection of the public, and needs to be completed expeditiously. 

 41. This Congressional statement requires on-going conscientious Commission compliance -- sufficient to protect the public in light of all of the research, health studies and experience now available to the agency. 

Respectfully submitted, 

The EMRadiation Policy Institute 

by Janet Newton, President 

P.O. Box 117 

Marshfield VT 05658 

E-mail: info@emrpolicy.org 

Telephone: (802) 426-3035

 Whitney North Seymour, Jr. 

425 Lexington Avenue, Room 1721 

New York, NY 10017 

Tel: 212-455-7640 

Fax: 212-455-2502 

Email: wseymour@stblaw.com

Gabriel North Seymour 

Gabriel North Seymour P.C. 

200 Route 126 

Falls Village, CT 06031 

Tel: 860-824-1412 

Email: certiorari@earthlink.net

November 18, 2013 Attorneys for The EMRadiation Policy Institute 

http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7520958408

My question is if the US Government is denying there is an RF emissions danger yet protecting themselves from it, why aren't "the people" being protected as well?

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