EHT section written by
Theodora Scarato, MSW
Executive Director of Environmental Health Trust and a petitioner in the case.
Theodora Scarato directs EHT programs and coordinates scientific programs in the US and internationally with EHTs Senior Science Advisors. Scarato is lead policy analyst and researcher for the EHT database on international actions– the most comprehensive collection of information on policy actions on cell phones and wireless.
Scarato has led efforts for federal accountability. Her Freedom of Information requestsfound the CDC hired an industry consultant for website rewrites. Her communicationswith the EPA were submitted as key evidence in the NRDC Amicus Brief submitted in the FCC lawsuit and provide critical information for legislators. She also coordinated the scathing scientific review of the Oregon Health Department Report on wireless radiation which has resulted in a September hearing of the Oregon Senate to investigate the issue.
She has championed efforts for safe technology in schools and her efforts lead to the Maryland Council on Children's Environmental Health to issue recommendations to reduce children’s Wi-Fi exposure. She has coordinated efforts to hold the WHO EMF Project accountable to their online factsheets that downplay the science and the letter by scientists to the WHO EMF Project remains unanswered to this day. Scarato has long worked to showcase the conflicts of interest at ICNIRP as documented in scientific articles an was featured in an European Parliament member’s report on ICNIRP conflict of interests.
Scarato published a landmark paper on why and how to reduce radiofrequency wireless in buildings and has presented at the National Institutes of Health, the New Hampshire State 5G Commission, the San Francisco Teachers Union, the University of California San Francisco and the American Federation of Teachers. She is on the board of PhoneGate Alert.