🇺🇸 Theodora Scarato testimony urges Montgomery County to pause data-center buildout over power-line EMF health risks
Environmental Health Sciences' Wireless and EMF Program director Theodora Scarato testified in support of a proposed two-year moratorium on new data centers in Montgomery County, Maryland. She cited power-line and substation EMF exposure, including her reported 17 milligauss readings near youth soccer fields, and said the United States has no federal safety limits for those EMFs.
Note: Environmental Health Sciences is an advocacy nonprofit. EMF Signal has not independently verified the field measurements described in Scarato's testimony.
"I recorded EMF levels at the playing field fence line above 10 milligauss, including readings as high as 17 milligauss near the adjacent youth soccer fields."
"Yet the United States does not have any federal safety limits for the EMFs emitted by substations and power lines. None."
"Before any data center is approved, the public deserves a full accounting and risk-mitigation plan addressing EMF levels, harmonics, air pollution, PFAS materials, wastewater contaminants, noise, infrasound, light pollution, and e-waste management."
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🇺🇸 Pause data centers over EMF risk Scarato testimony: no US federal limits on substation EMFs; measured 17 mG near youth soccer fields. Backs two-year moratorium in Montgomery County MD. Source: Environmental Health Sciences
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