Exposure limits & oversight

In 2001 the roof of the building where I operated my Vocational School was rented out to AT&T for three 3 G cell towers within feet of where I worked daily. I searched diligently for an alternate location, and was told by my landlord I'd be out on the street in 30 days if I did not sign a 3-5 year lease. The towers went live the last month of my occupancy before I found an alternative location. SB City told me they had no control over the placement of the towers, only their aesthetics. My nervous system was highly impacted- I had a hard time sleeping in the city therafter where RFR was more concentrated. In order to sleep at night, I moved to the mountains of Painted Cave away from the RFR fields. In 2019 when SB City decided to upgrade their Wireless Ordinance, I collaborated with local citizens in forming Safetechnology for Santa Barbara County to educate our local officials in the harms of RFR and how a well writtten ordinance is essential to give the city planners the capacity to deny unneccesary and harmful cell towers from proliferating our neighborhoods. My husband and I invested my own savings to hire the best attorney in the country for this endeavor: Andrew Campanelli and our members met with our City Council regularly and made weekly public comment. We were successful within our City, and but our County has been a much more difficult hurdle. Many years later after many therapies, I am able to sleep in the City of Santa Barbara

The new LED headlights need to be regulated and reined in. They blind oncoming traffic and create hazardous conditions. There has to be a compromise where the lights are bright enough for safe driving for everyone on the road.

Our current radiation standards are far to lax in providing safety for the public. Myself and many of my friends have been affected negatively health wise due to excessive RF radiation that is permitted by current standards. We need much tighter and lower RF radiation in our communities to protect the public health.

I am writing to give personal feedback to HHS on wireless radiation exposure. I am a concerned member of the public, an individual who has been labeled ‘a canary in the coal mines, and I react negatively around EMF and RL. When I look at a screen my eyes squint and start to burn and when I hold a cellphone in my hand, my arthritis flares up. When a smart meter was installed on the home of my sister in law, she started experiencing heart problems that went away when the meter was removed. It is time for the government to look at potential health effects on people and establish a priority to lower the radiation allowed in these products. Thank you for looking into this matter as the world is being blanketed with more and more unhealthy radiation and we the people are getting sicker from it. Diane

I am a concerned American citizen and mother and would love to update the wireless safety guidance and studies from the 90s when we had Internet and phone access through landline connections, flip phones and little no wireless radiation exposure. This is a constant concern for me and my children as their skulls are more permeable and they will be more impacted. It's a constant argument in our household since there is not enough information out there to confirm it's negative impact, we are too dependent on the convenience of wireless Internet and faster streaming. Please update the safety tests and guidelines to encompass the current 5&6G radiation plus overall exposure!

To the Department of Health and Human Services: I am submitting this comment in response to the RFI on EMF/RF radiation and wireless exposure (FR Doc. 2026-19252). My perspective is that of an individual and a healthcare industry professional with a background in medical device and healthcare sales. I support HHS's decision to systematically re-evaluate the state of the science on RF/EMF exposure, including at levels below current federal limits, and I urge the Department to weigh the following evidence as it identifies research priorities: • In 2011, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World Health Organization, classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as a Group 2B "possible human carcinogen" — the same category as lead and DDT — based on limited evidence from human and animal studies. • The National Toxicology Program's $30 million, decade-long study (final results published November 2018) found "clear evidence" that male rats exposed to high levels of RF radiation like that used in 2G/3G cell phones developed malignant heart schwannomas, with some evidence of tumors in the brain and adrenal gland as well. NTP's own scientists cautioned that whole-body, high-level rodent exposure doesn't map directly onto typical human cell phone use, but called the tumor link "real." • A separate, independent study by the Ramazzini Institute in Italy — the largest of its kind, involving 2,448 rats exposed over their full lifespans — found the same type of heart schwannoma in male rats exposed to RF levels representative of environmental cell-tower emissions, not just handset-level exposure. The researchers noted this reinforced the NTP findings using a different, lower-intensity exposure model. • Current FCC exposure limits, which the RFI itself notes, were largely set based on short-term thermal (heating) effects and have not been comprehensively updated to account for this newer body of long-term, non-thermal evidence. I recognize that federal agencies including FDA and WHO currently maintain that existing evidence does not establish RF exposure at regulated levels causes harm in humans, and that some researchers dispute the rodent-to-human relevance of the NTP and Ramazzini findings. That disagreement is exactly why this RFI matters: the existing evidence base is genuinely contested, not settled, and deserves a fresh, rigorous federal review rather than reliance on decades-old thermal-only standards. I would encourage HHS to: • Prioritize research on cumulative, long-term, non-thermal exposure, particularly for children and other potentially sensitive populations; • Commission an independent re-evaluation of whether current exposure standards adequately reflect the NTP and Ramazzini findings; • Ensure findings are coordinated across FDA, NIH, and CDC and translated into practical guidance for families, schools, and healthcare providers. My family has personally experienced health disruptions after being exposed to “healthy” levels. Thank you for undertaking this review and for the opportunity to comment.

Sorry, my story is a tad long. I am writing regarding the FCC’s response to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ remand concerning its decades-old radiofrequency (RF) radiation exposure guidelines. In 2019, I started experiencing RF electromagnet sensitivity. I was sleeping near my router, I used a laptop several days a week for my job, and I used a tablet every day. I noticed the side of my face would tingle when I sat down near the router and my fingers started tingling every time I used my laptop and tablet. It got so bad that couldn't even hold my tablet anymore, felt like an electric shock going through my hand. When I wasn't near the router or touching my laptop or tablet, my hands eventually stopped hurting. I knew something was terribly wrong and since all three were connected to Wi-Fi, I called the cable co.. I asked them if they had done anything to the Wi-Fi, they said yes, they upgraded to 5G. Not knowing exactly what that meant, I had them clarify; they said 5G, 5th Generation, makes the Wi-Fi, routers, go up to 5GHZ, when they were at 2.5GHZ. I told them I did not want an upgrade to go back to 2.5, I could feel the increase, they said they could not do that. I called the FCC, they said, have the cable co. come out and test the GHZ in my apt., I guess the FCC doesn't know the cable co. doesn't do that either. At this point I'm freaking out, I got online to see if anyone knew anything about what I was experiencing. I got ahold of a person that said I'm getting too much RF electromagnetic exposure and to get wired with an Ethernet cord to my laptop and get as far away from my router as possible and to buy a RF meter. I finally got a meter that showed my apt to be above 5 GHZ, mostly in the red at 8GHZ or higher; my bedroom was the only room in a yellow zone. I took everything to my bedroom and didn't hardly ever go into my living room or kitchen at all. John Thune at this time was all excited about getting 5G in downtown Sioux Falls, SD. The day they were going to turn it on; I went down there with my meter. I didn't even go down the street where they were, just to the corner and the meter was already in the red above 8GHZ, that's as far as my meter goes. I found out later these towers can easily go up to 100ghz., my meter doesn't go that high, doesn't matter, 8ghz is too high. Looking for another apt. that would be safe to move into, no luck. Everyone I looked at was in the red. Where my family lives they hadn't put up as many towers as Sioux Falls, SD. and seeing how I couldn't keep my job anymore, using their laptop, which required me using it in the field, and uncorded, would expose me to too much radiation, so I had to quit. I really loved that job. I moved and now live in an apt that is safe, different state, one level building, one neighbor. You do what you have to do. Let's get some things clear, not everyone feels the effects of RF, only if you have had too much exposure over a certain amount of time. But that doesn't mean they are not affected! Every single person is being affected, they just haven't reached their limit yet to feel it when around it. This has been hard as hell on me, hard to find a job where I'm not overly exposed. I worked at Walmart in apparel, was fine doing that until I had to work near electronics for too long, I would feel nauseated and couldn't think clear, they did accommodate and allow me to do all other apartments that wasn't as close to electronics, until I switched to a different Walmart that was closer to me. They wouldn't allow that even where other people were accommodated that couldn't use trash compactors because of a heart pacer and such, didn't matter, they fired me. Like it or not, RF electromagnetic radiation is bad for humans. Higher the Ghz the more radiation. Get the towers off school grounds and keeping them out of residential areas is the least you could do! Have a waiting rm in doctors' offices that have no RF electromagnetic radiation for people that are sensitive or don't want to be in an RF electromagnetic waiting room. Promote going wired instead of wireless. Let parents know how dangerous it is for their kids to be playing on a tablet that has Wi-Fi, download the game and turn the Wi-Fi off, play only games that require no Wi-Fi. Keep your babies, toddlers and younger kids off the cell phones. We were the only country obsessed with beating CHINA at 5G, now we have to beat CHINA at 6G, with no concern whatsoever on the health of the people or what it does to them.

It has been many years and cell phone upgrades since any real research has been done on the harmful effects of radiation. When cell phones first came out, the results were indicating too high levels of radiation and that has increased exponentially with each upgrade. We know children’s developing brains are terribly affected by too much radiation. Now it’s impossible to avoid any type of radiation exposure and sitting in my office with screens or looking at my phone for too long gives me frequent headaches. Every device needs to be studied and clearly labeled for consumers. Data center radiation must be determined and exposed before any construction is allowed to begin.

We live in a world with all kinds of radiation from smart meters, smart phones, cell towers, and I don't recall ever having been asked if I was on board or OK with the technology. They sprang up like mushrooms, overnight, during COVID, while everyone was occupied with sickness and death. I personally know of 2 people who were very sensative to EMF's..........one is dead and one lost a very lucrative contract @ BWI because it made him so sick being around cell towers. We don't know how these affect us so we rely on those in government and we all know how reliable they have been. I myself have opted out of smart meters and do not have a smart phone for that very reason, yet these are only a fraction if what's going thru the air or in our appliances, etc. What is the science. ,outdated regulations.....is anyone paying attentioin! Power companies are more concerned with profits than health! Please be a voice for those who cannot speak because they do not even realize what's happening. Thank for your attention to this matter.

Local communities must have control over their environment and hopefully one day soon reject the technology. It is an overreach of the federal government to control and direct this invasion of American communities. My cancer diagnosis in Jan 2020 can easily be attributed to direct beams from a "repeater" in the public area behind my home office.