Arthur Firstenberg
Arthur Robert Firstenberg (born May 28, 1950)[1] is an American author and activist on the subject of electromagnetic radiation and health.[2] He is the founder of the independent campaign group the Cellular Phone Task Force.[1] He is the author of Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution (Cellular Phone Task Force 1997) and The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life (Chelsea Green 2020).
Education
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Firstenberg was a Westinghouse scholar who received a BA in mathematics from Cornell University in 1971. He claims to have attended medical school in Irvine, California from 1978 to 1982, not completing because of electromagnetic hypersensitivity brought on by }}</ref>
Campaign against microwave technology
Firstenberg has argued in numerous publications that wireless technology is dangerous.
In 1997, the Cellular Phone Taskforce was the lead petitioner in a challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's RF radiation exposure limits, which was joined by dozens of other parties including the Ad Hoc Association of Parties Concerned About the s denied.[3]
In 2021, Firstenberg was one of the petitioners in another case brought before the U.S. Supreme Court (Santa Fe Alliance for Public Health and Safety et al. v. City of Santa Fe et al., Case No. 21-629. Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 prohibits states and local governments from regulating cell towers on the basis of the environmental effects of radio frequency radiation. The questions brought to the Supreme Court were (1) whether Section 704 violates the First Amendment right of access to courts, and (2) whether "environmental effects" means "health effects" in Section 704. On March 4, 2022, the Supreme Court denied certiorari, again refusing to hear the issue.[4]
Firstenberg also is a member of an organization in Santa Fe, New Mexico, called "Once a Forest",[5] which promotes fire suppression on public lands. The group opposes forest management policies such as thinning and prescribed fire. Their views are controversial.
See also
- Electromagnetic radiation and health
- Mobile phone radiation and health
- Wireless electronic devices and health
References
- ^ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
- ^ Curiel, Jonathan (2007-01-14), Worries cell phones could damage your cells, San Francisco Chronicle, retrieved 2010-02-28
- ^ O'Connor, Jared (2003), "National League of Cities Rising: How the Telecommunications Act of 1996 could expandTenth Amendment jurisprudence", Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review, 30 (2): 275–314, retrieved March 2, 2010
- ^ "2021 - Supreme Court". Cellular Phone Task Force.
- ^ Firstenberg, Arthur (July 25, 2015), "Deforestation: A Crime of the Highest Order", The New Mexican
External links
- "Cellular Phone Task Force" Website.
- "Radio Wave Packet" (2001), Article by Firstenberg.
- "Electromagnetic Fields (EMF): Killing Fields" by A. Firstenberg, The Ecologist v.34, n.5, 1 Jun 2004
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