Actor Bill Pullman Chastises Montana Energy Company For Endangering Public Health

" We've seen Bill Pullman take the lead in movies like Independence Day and While You Were Sleeping, but now the actor is taking on a new role: that of public health defender. Recently, Pullman spoke out against the "hideous impact" of unsanctioned power line development on the health of citizens in his home state of Montana.

Northwestern Energies, the company responsible for most of Montana's energy supply, is launching a large-scale development project seeking to connect power sources from Montana to California. Pullman claims that electromagnetic fields (EMFs) generated from the above-ground power lines pose a serious public health risk, adding that EMFs are perceived by many as "the next asbestos" for their connection to lymphoma in children.

Lymphoma is a cancer originating in the lymph nodes that, upon spreading, severely compromises the immune system. As Pullman notes, the connection between above-ground power lines and lymphoma, particularly in children, is well-documented -- even within Northwestern Energies' own health pamphlets.

Pullman has advocated for "going underground" with power lines -- a public health initiative that has already been implemented in many European cities and in China. The actor criticized the legal and political infrastructure that allows such public health oversights, saying: "Are we now a Third World country with how we deal with this -- with how we solve this problem?"

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