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Posted 2026-09-21#0168 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter lists perceived personal, family and wildlife effects around wireless sources and describes…

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Thank you SO MUCH for opening this discussion! I have been telling people for decades that EMF / RF is like cigarette smoking -- smoking was everywhere, doctors endorsed it -- and then one lawsuit showed how much companies knew about the health problems, and it was gone. Time is valuable, so I will give a super quick overview of my personal experience with the problems with EMF / RF -- 1. When my son was a baby, he screamed whenever we drove past a cell tower. 2. When driving on the highway, I'll get a head ache, og over a hill, see the cell tower, think, "Oh, that is why my head hurts!", it will hurt until a hill is between me and it; until the next headache and the next cell tower revealed minutes later 3. I had to stop flying, after wifi on planes came, as I was getting nosebleeds 4. My horses take people cell phones out of their pockets and flip them into mud. 5. I wondered why I was getting pneumonia after concerts and similar large gatherings; it was being around so many people in such a small space, with their cell, wifi and bluetooth antennas all blazing away 6. The keyless entry cars give me a head ache. 7. Everyone who has taken my advice, to turn wifi and cell phones off at night, has noticeably benefited 8. I sleep better after making sure that there are no live electric wires running in the wall behind my head 9. Tinnitus inside the house (with really high dirty electricity), but not outside, or when the power is off. 10. The bald eagles on my land have not been able to raise chicks in the nest that gets the full force of the cell tower; plus the high RF areas have killed my trees, including the tree with the bald eagle nest. 12. My children became unhappy and difficult when we moved to a high EMF/ RF area 13. Visitors to my hard-wired, no wifi house sleep better than elsewhere, in spite of the dirty electricity
Posted 2026-09-21#0164 · Permanent link ↗

The commenters request investigation of atmospheric spraying and weather modification, allege radiation-a…

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I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. We the People are calling on you to investigate and address activities that may harm our skies, including spraying, weather modification, geoengineering, radar, and pollution from commercial and military aircraft. Whether the effects are intentional or not, we deserve to know: • What is in our skies? • Who is responsible? • How is it affecting our health, environment, weather, and climate? • What is being done to protect us, and who will be held accountable for any harm? We demand transparency, accountability, and ACTION to protect the American people and our planet.” We feel that HAARP, DARPA, Nexrad, NASA are using radiation to move these chemicals around our skies and making us all sick! My entire family feels constant fatigue, nausea, headaches, sinus issues, the taste of metal in our mouths. It’s been getting worse the past 5 yrs! Please for the sake of our children’s & grandchildren’s futures please help us stop this! Thank you for providing individuals and families with an opportunity to be heard. Respectfully, Janet & Zach Stephens

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Posted 2026-09-21#0163 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter quotes a review about effects on plants and proposes independent statistical analysis of he…

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This article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10661-024-12623-0 shows in conclusions that: The aim of this review is to assess the impact of cell phone radiation effects on green plants. Rapid progress in networking and communication systems has introduced frequency- and amplitude-modulated technologies to the world with higher allowed bands and greater speed by using high-powered radio generators, which facilitate high definition connectivity, rapid transfer of larger data files, and quick multiple accesses. These cause frequent exposure of cellular radiation to the biological world from a number of sources. Key factors like a range of frequencies, time durations, power densities, and electric fields were found to have differential impacts on the growth and development of green plants. As far as the effects on green plants are concerned in this review, alterations in their morphological characteristics like overall growth, canopy density, and pigmentation to physiological variations like chlorophyll fluorescence and change in membrane potential etc. have been found to be affected by cellular radiation. On the other hand, elevated oxidative status of the cell, macromolecular damage, and lipid peroxidation have been found frequently. On the chromosomal level, micronuclei formation, spindle detachments, and increased mitotic indexes etc. have been noticed. Transcription factors were found to be overexpressed in many cases due to the cellular radiation impact, which shows effects at the molecular level. It should be enough for giving access to independent researchers to medical data of those who may complain so they could conduct proper statistical analysis. We have analyzed the medical data breaches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldemar_W._Koczkodaj#cite_note-8 The above link is copied from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldemar_W._Koczkodaj this way: In 2018, he coordinated a research effort to analyze health record breaches, based on data posted by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights.[7] The total number of individuals affected (called NIA by the government but they are simply patients) in the health care system was 173,398,820 at the time of publication submission (2017).[8] Evidently, we can do it. PDF of the above article is available here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-018-1837-z but can be sent to you upon request. Follow up in a open access journal is here:

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Posted 2026-09-21#0148 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter reports tumors in a dog that slept beside a router and requests warnings about sleeping nea…

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My dog slept by the wifi router and got a brain tumor and a colon tumor. Please warn people of the danger of sleeping near these and similar devices. Thank you!
Posted 2026-09-21#0144 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter reports tinnitus and mold-related illness following nearby tower installation and requests …

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I have tinnitus that started the same month that 5G cell towers went up in our area in 2021. I have lived with this ringing ever since. Mold also started growing in our home since the towers went up. I have lived here over 15 years and have never had a mold problem. Since 2021, areas of mold growth have shown up and in 2022 I was diagnosed with a mold illness, which caused multiple symptoms and a trip to the ER. Please study the safety of these towers and remove them from residential and school areas. This radiation should not be raining down on where people live and where children sit at school. Thank you.
Posted 2026-09-21#0141 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter attributes symptoms and environmental damage to alleged atmospheric spraying and asks for i…

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Every time chemtrails are sprayed, myself and friends I've talked to have less energy,cough more, get sick with flu symptoms, sleep lousy at night, have headaches, lose days from work, etc. even soil, water and garden damage has happened from toxic air issues. I've had my soil analyzed for the last few years. WHEN IS SOMETHING GOING TO BE ADDRESSED to RID these perfect day disruptors? Then top that off with crop spraying. What a beautiful mess. Frequency disruption 101.
Posted 2026-09-21#0131 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter requests prompt federal investigation and protective action based on scientific literature …

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For years, scientists, health professionals, and people who report being negatively affected by wireless radiation have urged federal health agencies to investigate its health and environmental effects, evaluate the growing body of scientific evidence indicating harm, and take swift action to protect public health. We need this agency to act to protect the public from known harms.
Posted 2026-09-21#0105 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter distinguishes compliance testing from long-term biological safety and requests independent …

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I am submitting this comment because the United States needs to stop confusing regulatory compliance with proof of biological safety. A wireless device can “pass” an RF exposure test under specified laboratory conditions and still leave unanswered the real public-health question: what happens to living tissue after years or decades of real-world exposure? Real life does not resemble a single-device laboratory test. Children, adults and pets are surrounded by phones, Wi-Fi routers, tablets, laptops, Bluetooth devices, wearables, smart appliances and nearby antennas, often operating simultaneously and for many hours every day. Current standards do not adequately reflect chronic, cumulative, real-world exposure. Exposure changes with distance, signal strength, device position, frequency, modulation, data transmission and the number of sources present. Yet our regulatory framework has relied heavily on specific absorption rate and power-density limits rather than long-term biological monitoring of actual populations. The question should not simply be, “Does this device stay below a SAR limit?” It should be, “What happens biologically to cells, tissues, organs and developing nervous systems under realistic exposure conditions?” HHS should independently investigate oxidative stress, cellular signaling, DNA damage, reproductive effects, neurological effects, sleep, development, endocrine effects and cancer. Absence of substantial heating should never be treated as automatic proof that there are no biological effects. Children deserve special attention. They are not small adults. Their bodies and nervous systems are still developing, and today’s children may experience wireless exposure from infancy through an entire lifetime. Yet the long-term evidence for lifelong exposure beginning in childhood remains limited. That is a serious knowledge gap, not reassurance. Animals and the environment also deserve attention. Pets spend long periods inside homes near routers and wireless devices. Wildlife, insects, birds and plants are now exposed to an increasingly dense RF environment. The evidence is incomplete and sometimes inconsistent, but that is precisely why rigorous independent research is needed. The National Toxicology Program reported cancer findings in RF-exposed animals, including malignant heart schwannomas in male rats and some evidence of malignant gliomas. Human studies have produced mixed results. These differences should not be used to declare the issue settled in either direction. “Not conclusively proven harmful” is not the same thing as “proven safe.” The regulatory process itself also deserves scrutiny. In 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found that the FCC had not adequately explained why its RF exposure limits protected against harmful non-cancer effects and had not sufficiently addressed evidence involving long-term exposure, children and environmental effects. A communications regulator should not be the final authority on complex questions of toxicology, developmental biology, neurology and public health. Other countries have taken more precautionary approaches. Switzerland applies lower precautionary limits at certain sensitive locations, and France conducts post-market SAR testing of phones. The United States should not assume that decades-old limits remain adequate simply because they are familiar. HHS should establish a truly independent research program with transparent funding and strict conflict-of-interest protections. Research should examine chronic and cumulative exposure, multiple simultaneous sources, direct body contact, pregnancy, children, pets, vulnerable populations, modern 4G/5G/Wi-Fi technologies, and biological outcomes at the cellular, tissue, organ and whole-body levels. Public confidence cannot rest on assurances from agencies or industries. It must rest on independent science, transparent data, reproducible findings and standards that reflect how people actually live. A compliance test is not a safety study. HHS has an opportunity to replace assumptions with modern, real-world health research and to protect children, families, animals and the environment using evidence that reflects actual exposure.
Posted 2026-09-21#0101 · Permanent link ↗

A commenter identifying as a physician reports leaving practice and relocating after symptoms near teleco…

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I am responding to the HHS inquiry about non native emf exposure which is a major health concern. I am a doctor who had to give up a beautiful new office, and end my practice in medicine due to high Electro Magnetic exposure. An Intel company (century link) installed a residential hub next to my office. My walls were hot, vibrating, patients were dizzy, I suffered severe headaches, vomiting and dizziness until i collapsed. I thought I had a heart attack but apparently it was a racing heart that caused a spasm in my cardiac tissue. The pain surrounding my chest was sore to the touch. Being a doctor I stared to put things together. We had the office tested for electro magnetic stress and the meters screamed ! Every meter got maxed out. So I made the decision to leave my newly renovated office, of course not easy. I was harassed by the rental company, but when something like thins happen you don’t care. It was my life or an office. I choose my life. I was laughed at by the rental company, I was mocked by colleagues, but again I didn’t care, my life and the health of my patients was more important. I had to pay fees and forfeit my deposits, leave behind all my updates and even though I begged them not to rent the place again, they did! With no regard to my findings. These hubs should not be within 1000 feet of another business but in my case this residential hub with hundreds and hundreds of modems was just a Sheetrock away. Since this event I practiced from my home and eventually decided I wasn’t well enough to practice medicine at all anymore. I sold my home and have devoted all my time to study this new toxin. I choose to get out of the city and move to the mountains. I am healing and I am learning more about what a dangerous toxin non native EMFs are to our health, the planet, plants and animals. Electro magnetic stress can even make candles burn faster meaning something unfavorable has changed in the air. We have plenty of studies showing how these frequencies kill cells and make our mitochondria sick. We know it raises blood sugar, we know it can cause cancer. Why are we not doing anything about it? Because of who holds the money! There is also plenty of research that we can harmonize these energies, why not use good frequencies that can restore the body, bring peace and calm and even help plants grow! We know how to do this! Why is it not happening! We need to take a look at EMFs from lighting, towers, phones, computers, electronics, baby monitors, electric cars, Starlink, the golden dome ! Hello ! Soon there will be no place on earth to find sanctuary in nature. No corner to the earth left without these chaotic frequencies. Maybe under ground will be the only place left, I think our children are a big target and they suffer the most since their brain have no fully developed. We have so many odd things we see as doctors nowadays, so many toxins we breathe, drink, eat and are injected with. Now we have to worry about a toxin we can’t see, smell or hear. Non native EMFs!
Posted 2026-09-21#0097 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter reports family illness and financial harm while living near seven smart meters alongside da…

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I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of a family that the physical and emotional health and financial security has been greatly dismantled by the damages of sleeping directly inside unknowingly to 7 smart meters. Coupled with an unsealed concrete floor with a water table underneath so the bedroom was perpetually damp and mold in the wall of the kitchen. My son and I had a huge range of healrh problems during the time living there.

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