Insights by Theodora Scarato and EHS Experts
Theodora Scarato, MSW, is Director of the Wireless and EMF Program at Environmental Health Sciences, where she works to elevate public and professional understanding of the scientific research on cell tower and cell phone radiation risks to advance evidence-based policy and transparency towards a safer technology future. Scarato, working for over a decade in the field, has co-authored several scientific papers and serves as a Special Expert to the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (ICBE-EMF). This policy blog roll includes posts by Scarato and other experts.
You can connect with Theodora Scarato on LinkedIn and Substack. Contact us at EMFProgram@ehsciences.org
The Latest
- Whatever Industry Wants: How the FCC Is Steamrolling Locals in the Cell Tower Rollout
- Opposition Mounts Against FCC Cell Tower Fast-Track Proposal (25-276)
- Official Letters Opposing FCC Cell Tower Fast-Track Rules
- Regulatory Gaps in U.S. Wireless Radiation Policy: Public Health Implications and Recommendations for Reform
- Letter to Senate Calling For FCC Transparency and Accountability on Cell Tower and Wireless Radiation Risk
- Environmental Health Sciences Urges Senate to Demand Transparency and Accountability from FCC on Cell Tower, Cell Phone and Wireless Radiation Risk
- The FCC Witheld Cell Phone Radiation Tests That Found High Radiation
- Montgomery County vs. the FCC: How One Community Challenged “5G First, Safety Second” Policy
- The FCC and Congress Proposals To Strip Local Control Over Cell Towers: A Law and Policy Conversation
- How to Submit Reply Comments to the FCC Cell Tower Fast Track Proposal 25-276
Theodora Scarato
Theodora Scarato is Director of the Wireless and EMF Program at Environmental Health Sciences.
Scarato is a leading expert in environmental health policy related to cell towers. She has co-authored several scientific papers and serves as a Special Expert to the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (ICBE-EMF). Having previously long served as Executive Director of Environmental Health Trust, Scarato led its landmark federal case against the FCC in which the court mandated the agency explain how its 1996 cell tower radiation exposure guidelines were adequate. She has filed 1000 scientific submissions to the FCC and is involved in current efforts to get the FCC to respond to the 2021 DC Circuit Court mandate.
Her paper, “U.S. policy on wireless technologies and public health protection: regulatory gaps and proposed reforms,” published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health, is a foundational paper on how and why the U.S. regulatory framework for cell towers and cell phones is inadequate. Scarato has filed more than 300 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to U.S. agencies to uncover how wireless policy decisions are made.
Scarato has delivered numerous presentations in the U.S. and internationally, including at the National Institutes of Health Health in Buildings Roundtable, the Experts Forum at Yale Medical School, the University of California, San Francisco, and the American Public Health Association Conference. She has also coordinated several scientific conferences, including the first major medical conference training doctors on non-ionizing EMFs. More about Scarato here.