Disability, access & daily life

Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of Reassessment of Federal Communications Commission Radiofrequency Exposure Limits and Policies ET Docket No. 13-84 COMMENTS OF JANET DAVENPORT This filing provides comments from Janet Davenport in the above-referenced proceeding. I am a member of the public concerned with the unaddressed potential health and environmental risks of radiofrequency (RF) radiation from wireless infrastructure and devices. SUMMARY I am filing a report for a friend who is so sick with EHS that she can't even use electricity let alone get online to comment on her condition. She is an individual consumer living in Australia. Janet had to have the wiring in her home restructured so that all other wiring was separate from it. She uses no electricity and keeps warm during winter using candles. With exposures to wi-fi, mobile phones and cell towers, within 3 minutes she suffers severe migraines and begins vomiting. It can take her weeks to recover from simple exposures so for the most part she is completely isolated with no support from anyone. As I have EHS too, we write to each other and have done for years. It helps her not to feel so alone. I know Janet would like to see awareness raised on EMF dangers and protocols set in place to protect vulnerable sensitive people like herself. ARGUMENT Janet understands the full effects that EMF can have on the human body from her personal experience. She also gets printed newsletters and magazines to keep her updated on EMF research. Some of the points she would like to illustrate on these effects include: 1. The Effects of oxidative stress on the body including cancer, free radicals, blood chemistry. Oxidative mechanisms of biological activity of low-intensity radiofrequency radiation - PubMed 2. The acute health effects caused by smartphones and antennas which have proven to cause red blood cells to rouleaux creating hypoxic conditions in the body. CONCLUSION Accordingly, I strongly urge the Commission to, under the weight of the scientific evidence, find that the current RF exposure limits are insufficient to protect public health and the environment. They should be lowered to reflect the science previously disregarded by the Commission. Dated: 26th September 2026 Sincerely, JANET DAVENPORT Site 14, 2 Evans Rd Canton Beach, NSW 2263 Australia

Sept 24, 2026 ET Docket No. 13-84 Reassessment of FCC RF Limits/Policies. I'm Jaime Schunkewitz, an electrical/biomedical engineer with an advanced case of electromagnetic hypersensitivity and accompanied chemical sensitivity. I was a process control engineer commissioning oil refineries, and chemical plants. Tremors in my forearms were a sure sign of neural damage according to Dr. Rea. Later while a principal software engineer in R&D, I could no longer endure the excruciating pain from the EMF emitted by my PC at work. I cut the cord and went wireless at the times. Pulsed microwaves emitted by wireless devices are an existential threat to my health and existence. Cell phones, Bluetooth, wifi all cause acute, severe symptoms including headache, tinnitus, fatigue, mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), cognitive decline, insomnia, chest pain, heart fibrillation, muscle weakness, digestive gut pain. The effects accumulate, so the more time being exposed the worse the symptoms become, and longer recovery time is required. If I don't have an opportunity to recover then a feverish illness take over, where I'm bedridden. I'm only able to type because I'm 25 feet from my laptop using 10x binoculars. The keyboard is an analog/passive matrix with fiber optic isolation. My trackball is shielded and also fiber optic isolated. The laptop runs on the battery, charged by a linear power supply, with a short wired Ethernet cable, the modem and router run on linear DC power supplies , all wired without WiFi, and filtered to keep the noise from conducting onto the power lines. The printer is the most brutally noisy device, and turned on for a few seconds at a time, even with blutooth disarmed. The setup still becomes painful after several minutes of use, more so when on-line. Any witness can see my face turn red following short exposure to EMF. My face now burns constantly since smart meters were installed in the neighborhood. I visited my MD the same week they were installed, when he prescribed a topical ointment for Rosacia, because my face was beet red. At the time I wasn't aware the SMs were commissioned. I've become a prisoner in my own home, terrified of becoming ill from the ubiquitous cell towers, cell phones and other wireless devices. Even though we have an analog electric utility meter the pulsed microwaves from other houses still effect me, both from the radiation and high frequency noise conducted onto the power transmission lines. I don't have a smart phone, there are are no wireless devices in the house, there are no switching mode power supplies, No one uses a cell phone in the house. So there are no contradictions, I do all I can to avoid EMF just to stay alive and be as productive as possible. Otherwise I'll fall into a malaise, never to recover. In two instances my heart has ceased beating, until my hands froze and unable to utter a word. That occurred in the early stages of my syndrome, before remediating. I hide outside in a shed when the oil furnaces are on, same for TVs the washer, vacuum, blenders, etc. I can tell when a cell phone is on, even while standing idle; first tinnitus, then a headache. The symptoms don't just disappear when the phone goes off, rather they linger for hours,, even days, depending on the baseline of my sensitivity and exposure to EMF and chemicals. I can feel a 5G phone as someone walks in the house. Countless scientific studies prove the detrimental health effects of pulsed microwaves, yet the most credible, stark evidence are people like me. We've warned others, cried for help and recognition only to be bullied, tortured, ridiculed, ignored, left to fend for ourselves. My own MD told me I have to be my own advocate when I requested assistance in providing accommodations at the office. They refuse to turn the 50 inch TV off for me. It's playing gibberish while I'm suffering from oxidative stress, Add the cell phones then the symptoms begin to build with time, my heart rate quickens. When the chest pain begins I've entered a more acute stage, when gone too far a feverish sickness ensues a day later. Smart meters violate the right to privacy and the inalienable right to pursue happiness. All of us should have the option to have analog utility meters. Schoolchildren are at risk, screen time is pulsed microwave time. The combination of EMF and chemicals is the leading cause of chronic disease via activation of voltage gated calcium channels and subsequent oxidative stress. The single most effective way to make America great again is by cleaning up the environment from chemicals and EMF. The current rise in pollution, including atmospheric mercury, concurrently with pulsed microwaves is undermining us. Best Regards, Jaime Schunkewitz.

Please create meaningful EMF standards. Good effects will redound in human health and our beloved natural world, and will stimulate our economy. Of course you are familiar with the U.S. National Toxicology Program’s 2018 “most extensive study to date,” determining that cell phone emissions cause tumors in male rats and DNA damage. https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/topics/cellphones/index.html?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=prod&utm_campaign=ntpgolinks&utm_term=cellphone Immediately addressing the exposure of our school children seems a natural priority. My own story: Awareness of EMF sensitivity came to me after 54 years of age. Perhaps that’s when SmartMeters and a nearby Verison hotspot came in, or — as effects are cumulative — maybe that’s when my bucket overflowed, so to speak. My sensitivity spiked on a single day, after a medical test that day. Thereafter, there was no place in my house I could sleep before purchasing a sleep canopy — which is fragile, difficult to maintain, and does not stop all EMFs. And I continued to lose health from daytime exposure. I had a breast cancer operation in 2008, and was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease thereafter. I sold that house and moved. As you doubtless know, there are many, many symptoms which vary per human body and source, focus, direction, timing, and power of signal or flow. I seem sensitive to all three types of EMFs. Inability to sleep and feeling unwell are perhaps the words to describe my most abiding symptoms. Before selling my unhealthy house, from which I couldn’t move before finding a healthy place, I got down to 88 pounds (height 5’5”) despite eating 5000-6000 calories a day. After four years of recovery in a healthy-EMFwise location, seldom venturing into the world, I’m back at 120 pounds and feeling good. Hashimotos disease has disappeared. But my EMF sensitivity continues to grow, despite my seeking medical and energetic cures. I am unable to withstand exposure in work places, so I can’t work; a doctor exempted me from jury duty; I am grateful for protective film in my car windows. I laugh: I am one of the few to benefit from Covid precautions; six feet of distance in checkout lines makes others’ cell phones easier to bear. Monetary costs are of course significant: selling and buying houses, cancer treatment, seeking medical remedies to EMF harms, being unemployed. One knows that my new house may become untenable too, since the telecommunications industry calls the shots. I know others who are EMF sensitive. One is housebound at 50. Others don’t want it known that they are sensitive or feeling unwell, beset, pained. One of my silent EHS friends is an M.D. Another is a school official. I imagine that these standards would limit most stringently the harmful frequencies currently in common use (frequencies originally used, as I hear, in military weapons research). If I were in your position, I would favor the building biology guidelines for dwellings and places where children or the sick congregate. Knowing that those limits will be exceeded many places, work toward safety would be done in stages, first with no new installation or upgrades permitted in impacted areas; second with phased reductions in permitted output of damaging EMFs. Much more healthful frequencies exist, and technological improvements to favor health can offer great economic opportunities and environmental improvement. Some healthier options are already available, but cannot compete against the entrenched practices while those are allowed to set the standard. I wish courage, far-sightedness, and compassion to attend you in your considerations.

Besides tinnitus proliferation and NEPA requests last decade to FCC for studies showing EMF safety, which both "bought" parties blew off for profit..... re Cell phone EMF’s (ElectroMagnetic Frequencies) and their serious impacts I sort of jokingly initially referred to the problems of isolation, narcissism, "anti-"social media vs actual direct communication, general dumb-downing, etc., initiated primarily by intro of common cell use in the early 2000's, by referencing the owners’ "addicting" cell phones ( which I call StupidPhones or ViewBlockers and do not use, while I do LOVE safe hardwired fiber optics and internet). It was only a few months ago now that I changed my own thinking about that somewhat meant to be a "teasing " term, "addictive". This is when I fully realized that these people are truly ADDICTED, and denial is one of the MAIN signs of addiction. Hence the question I have been too often asked, "How can you possibly live without one???" is not a casual sort of joke, but an honest but unacknowledged admission of genuine addiction. I have shared the following info with c 150+ different individuals and organizations and only 2 have ever brought the subject back up to me, one a lawyer friend, now convinced, who has argued in front of the Supreme Court in the past, and another, a nationally renowned ornithologist who said he would now add this threat to insects, in particular, outlined below to his already existing list of 1) habitat loss , 2) overuse of herbi-pesticides (which I have battled against alone and with my students for decades), and 3) climate change (a pathetically self-exculpatory abstracted term for those in our world-exploiting “consumer culture”) From a recent search "EMF harms to Insects" PLENTY to look at..... if one looks Here are a first few This first one below reiterates the dearth of focused newer studies ( due to unwillingness of cell addicts, + Telecom influence to obfuscate and squelch). My "anecdotal" evidence of YEARS (2009 until 5G arrival in early '23) of ALWAYS seeing probably hundreds of honey and other bees, + other insects, EVERY time I would go on a run through our burbs on all the yr round flowering plants or other insects around lights at night here is, in our poor at self-examination anthronarcissistic culture, unfortunately worth little. These days since early '23, I sometimes see ZERO insects on say a similar to the past heavily flowered 9 mile jaunt. Now I revel if I see 1 dragonfly or butterfly or one bat or maybe YAY even a few honeybees, usually only on one out of many nearby blooming plants, such as an in bloom Texas Ranger, which since my arrival here in 2001 always were formerly adorned with happily foraging bees. Much referenced in this article, that sounds horrible to me already, uses phrases such as "deserves further research of such and such type ". Denial and addiction hahah ! Even the "old" and "not focused" or dismissed as 'irrelevant' studies are so troubling to me that I can SO easily see how the cell industry has capitalized on human's fascination with and addiction to these devices as OVERWHELMINGLY and quickly as possible, while practicing what I call omitformation... just like with tobacco, the covid mRNA shots, or Roundup, or petro and global warming etc Don't LIE, OMIT just leave out and obfuscate anything that might deter profit. And with those amounts of $, one can buy all sorts of elections, legislation, appointees, rules, permits, loopholes, subsidies, etc. while ignoring any adverse science and ramming through basically untested tech. Take the $ and run before you have to (maybe) pay up later when the truth emerges ( eg Bayer Monsanto and current glyphosate settlements) The worst examples of fox guarding the hen house. The Telecom bought and dominated FCC rammed through 5G with virtually ZERO safety testing. Biological effects of electromagnetic fields on insects: a systematic review and meta-analysis and https://ehtrust.org/new-scientific-review-insects-threatened-by-emfs-including-5g-and-cell-tower-and-wireless-radiation/ and I do not always agree with all Mercola puts out, but value the work he does to collate and reference his sources This also, I think, talks about often poohpoohed EMF sensitivity in humans? https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/04/14/health-risks-of-5g.aspx?ui=93a5ed18b3438ac769725b337148474558c3bc7313758107668f5eef905cd1e6&sd=20170417&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20240414_HL2&foDate=false&mid=DM1557196 here are the links to the beekeeper association's' related studies I shared out a few yrs ago, now 3 yrs old https://www.beeculture.com/electromagnetic-radiation-part-1/ https://www.beeculture.com/electromagnetic-radiation-part-2/ Not sure exactly where I have also read about re cell radiation links to ADHD ( finally ! as I watched my students dumb down and lose focus since cell proliferation, even the very brightest we might send off to Exeter et similis), to hormone disruption in all animals, interference with plant cycles, various cancers from extra close regular exposure ( a small but well done study of Israeli electrical workers) etc etc .. NO PROBLEM HERE !!! just Scroll away and ignore wherever you are and whomever you might be with and your impact on the planet ! (why I call them ViewBlockers) $$$$$$$$$$ "normal" see... we "All" do it ! As I have mentioned to many before I believe, although I'd be happiest with close to zero cell EMF bombardment, the bees etc "seemed" OK with yrs of just 3 and 4 G and the same stupid overuse of herbicides and pesticides I have battled against for years that has not changed significantly since 5 G arrival. .......and more "anecdotal" evidence. when far enough away from urban sub-urban 5G's limited range of blanketing , say out at Corn Creek DNWR HQ miles from the expanding burbs (still !) or out in the wilderness desert and mts near me, I still see more insects. ( hard to believe but supposedly there are over 700 species of bees native to our Clark County !!!! must be some awesome specialization) PLENTY to see ......If one wants to look into all this, which virtually "NO ONE" seems willing to do, " Enough bad news already ?? vs learning anything negative about my "convenient" cell phone security blanket ?" Thanks Scott PS Although THEY will not tell you this , apparently your own cell phone emits its most dangerous EMF radiation levels when you have lowest bars as it is not receiving enough EMF's from elsewhere to connect.....please use speaker phone especially then ! Be well !

I am extremely concerned that the extreme ubiquity of wireless devices everywhere and of wireless phone towers everywhere has not been properly studied. I strongly urge the federal government to immediately take steps to retroactively study the exact timing, frequency bands and strength, and locations of different types of EMFs from all cell phone towers which encourage wireless devices everywhere as well as a retroactive study of the same data from all other towers emitting EMFs, including radio and TV towers, police communication towers and antennas, fire department towers and antennas, private corporations and private towers and antennas, CB towers and antennas, airport towers and antennas, private airplane towers and antennas, and all other forms of towers and antennas in order to be able to identify cummulative EMF exposure in specific areas. Create a overlapping radius of local and nearby overlapping radius of adverse health impacts of EMFs, using all sources of local medical diagnoses including the data from Medicaid and Medicare wiped clean of personal identifiable information (all contact info, exact age, name, relatives, emergency contacts, photos, and all data that may be used to identify a specific person), where addresses can be categorized into areas influenced most by specific tower(s), and ages categorized by 5 year groupings. Then, collect by zip codes surrounding the nearby hospitals; urgent type care facilities; endocrinologists and other handling diabetics and those with blood sugar control issues; eye doctors who test IOP and or do retinal and macular imaging for potential blindness warnings; to be cross referenced with suspected and related adverse health occurrences from various types of EMFs. This would include out-of-control diabetic Blood Sugar; Intraocular pressure (IOP) causing glaucoma; sleeplessness, difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep for 7-9 hours; Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD); ADHD and related anxiety and attention focus disorders; cancer--all forms, broken down by type; sepsis and other infections; cardiac disturbances of rate, rhythm, blood pressure, EKG findings; epilepsy; tinnitis; and other issues being associated with EMFs, including increased death rates. The SARS ratings on mobile devices need stricter regulation to make them more accurate and more useful for purchasers to know the actual strength of the EMFs in terms of exposure time and SARS rating likely to produce various symptoms for various chronic illnesses. The current SARS ratings are unreliable for most predictive uses, and this needs to change. FCC should compile available information and make it available to the public in a useful way. FCC should outlaw mobile devices with SARS ratings known to cause problems that lead to pre-mature death. Perhaps a second measurement should be added to the SARS rating. From 2002 to 2018 a nature sanctuary in Iowa County, Wisconsin was isolated from cell towers being much lower than much of the surrounding area, and while the insects and the bees were dwindling in that surrounding area where cell phones received sufficient signals to be used. The area inside this nature sanctuary never received sufficient cell signals for any use whatsoever until 2019 when some phones began to ring or were able to sometimes be used within that sanctuary, and at the same time, remarkably the number of insects began to decrease by about 50% in a fairly rapid decline, and some bee hives on the property that had always thrived began to suffer some disassociation for the first time. Based on my observations, the rapid decrease was associated almost identically with the timing of the penetration of mobile cell phone signals into the area for the first time in the history of that nature sanctuary based upon the fact that the cell phones began to ring there for the first time in history and the fact that people were able to find places their cell phones worked deep in the central area where people did group activities together for the first time in history in 2019. Based on my repeated confirmation of this first time during 2019 on at least a monthly basis and at times more often, I concluded that I was observing that EMFs from the mobile phone cellar towers were the primary reason that bees were leaving the hives and unable to find their way back to the hives to which they belonged in this situation. There were no neonicinoid exposure in this area. In fact, this entire large sanctuary had never had any pesticide applications whatsoever for decades going back at least 50 years. In this way, pesticides can be ruled out as the new cause of the sudden decline of bees and insects in this special area that had been geographically protected from nearby farms which were on much much higher ground than the overwhelming bulk of this sanctuary through which a small creek meandered. Other surrounding area with different ownership was also mostly composed of the same woods and forest that surrounded this entire sanctuary property, and those woods and forest started at about the same altitude as the bulk of this carved out nature sanctuary, resulting in almost no cell phone coverage until 2019 on the back roads leading to this sanctuary and these farms, some of which raised cows, often seen in the woods. This nature sanctuary also had a tall grass prairie in it, where the cell phones also did not work until 2019. It had hills that rose up higher than that tall grass prairie but lower than surrounding adjacent lands owned by other folks, some of which contained a natural burial section, but again the cell phones did not work on this property until beginning in 2019 which was remarkably the exact time that several people began remarking about the rapid decrease in flying insects and some loss of bees in bee hives for the first time. The information in Arthur Firstenberg's books must be considered by FCC and incorporated into policies to restrict EMF harm to people that has long been recognized in his books by millions of people: The Invisible Rainbow: A history of Electricity and Life; The Earth and I; Microwavng our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution (Cellular Phone Task Force, 1997). He documented the basic fact that everytime a new EMF environmental source technology was introduced, starting at least with the telegraph, that a new bumb followed in the death statistics where that new EMF technology was being used to the extent it radiated outward from the source. Since non-ionizing radiation does this, that amazing fact has huge implications that these EMFs represent a source of physics dynamics that has not been sufficiently explored by science to identify the full characteristics of this energy source that departs from the more traditionally acknowledged energy sources and fuels. My personal experiential observations after the fact of installation of electric smart meters on the houses in my neighborhood on the opposite side of my block, when I remained uninformed and unawares of that installation in the mid-to-late 2010s, resulted in the sudden development of high IOP eye pressures that are known to call fast and sudden permanant loss of vision in people of Asian and Native American descent who have narrow angle glaucoma that does result in fast and sudden permanent loss of vision forever, which is a serious human health disability that must be avoided at all costs instead of let loose without regulation to harm human beings exposed to the EMFs that cause these IOP eye pressures to skyrocket upwards with this devastating effect. This requires quick action where the lens of the eye requires laser surgery to make a hole for the buildup of liquid pressure in the eye to escape before the person with narrow angle glaucome becomes permanently blind in this way. Other Americans of European descent tend to have increased IOP eye pressures from EMF exposures also, but the eye pressures doesn't skyrocket upwards super fast in open angle glaucoma where the IOP eye pressure raises much slower, allowing more scheduling in the timing to do that same laser surgery. After EMF smart meters were placed on homes in California, medical records were used to prove that number of people developing high IOP eye pressures suddenly raised, often happening to more than one person in a household immediately after the electric smart meters were introduced. Very similar situations developed with California electric smart meters pertaining to sudden near-death explosions in dangerous levels of very high blood sugar that developed in many households, often being diagnosed in more than one household member in the same time period or at the exact same time shortly following the installation of electric smart meters. It is very serious that people with closed angle glaucoma could go blind permanently from EMFs, and the bands of those EMFs must be identified and power levels determined that are associated with this permanent blindness, and those causes must be removed without delay from the US EMF tower system and cell phone usage system. It is very serious that people can develop rapid onset dangerously high level of diabetic level blood sugar that goes out of controllability at the 800 level range and the 900 range and however high that blood sugar is able to go when the person's life in that danger zone. The power levels and bands associated with this potential death threat and any permanent harm from out-of-control rising blood sugar must be banned from EMF usage across the USA in order to protect the lives of all Americans--none of which can be Constitutionally viewed as disposable by any government entity in the USA, especially FCC which has acquired a rather odd and reckless reputation for ignoring these problems which have been recognized in California courts as sufficiently documented rationally for the California Court System to order the mandatory removal of these EMF smart meters for electric usage at some point in the past. The fact that a pattern of such cases with out-of-control blood sugar developed in many houses shortly after the California electric smart meters were installed and that some houses had multiple victims of this sudden onslaught of out-of-control blood sugar shows that there is is a sufficient causal relationship that must be explored to protect people's from Type 2 diabetes or whatever. The FCC has failed to give proper consideration to the adverse health effects of EMF technologies to date, and this disregard of potential death from insufficient FCC regulation of this dangerous technology must change immediately going forward.

Wireless radiation standards in the U.S. are outdated and severely deficient. Thousands of independent studies have shown that there are numerous ill effects from RF/EMF, such as oxidative stress, cancer, and neurological disorders. I've been very sensitive to RF/EMF for many years, and unfortunately, levels continue to get worse. I have neurological symptoms from exposures. I've had to make accommodations to my living environment (e.g. special shielding) to try and limit my exposures. I'm currently looking for a new place to live because my exposures from neighbors have gotten so bad (e.g. wireless routers on 24 hours a day, Tesla cars charging all night long, which cause magnetic field levels in my house to double or triple, etc.) Thank you for reaching out for feedback.

My name is Laurie Brown. I taught middle school for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) for approximately 26 years. I rarely was ill and accumulated approximately 800 hours of sick time during my career, the equivalent of nearly 7-8 months of work. I enjoyed a normal, healthy life and never had to concern myself with routers, Wi-Fi or electro-magnetic radiation. Unfortunately, my career, health, and life as I knew it changed in April 2015, when my school “upgraded” our Wi-Fi system and added 190 access points, two in every classroom, and brought in wireless devices, increasing the total wireless radiation on campus. My District did little to protect me from the peaks or spikes of radiation emitted from all the wireless devices on campus. Our system was activated in April 2015. After a few hours on campus, I would begin to feel ill and experience symptoms such as headaches, heart palpitations, skin burning, earaches, nausea, foggy headedness, inability to concentrate, and many other debilitating symptoms – all symptoms of microwave sickness. I was becoming electro sensitive and was diagnosed with Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome caused by exposure to RF radiation. After a few consecutive days of work and increased exposure on campus, I started using my illness days. Some other staff members experienced physical and debilitating symptoms from the increased radiofrequencies on campus, too. My Principal contacted LAUSD’s Office of Environmental Health and Safety (OEHS) and wrote to the Inspector General of LAUSD sharing his concern as well as staff members’ concerns. The District’s OEHS waited approximately 6 weeks, until Common Core Testing was over, when fewer students would be operating devices and on campus with cell phones, to measure the RF frequencies in specific classrooms. On June 22, 2015, during the summer break, my principal wrote to LAUSD's Inspector General stating, "After the system was turned on, several employees complained of illness (headaches, light headedness, etc.).” After the installation of the new commercial Wi-Fi system at my school and becoming ill from my exposure to EMF/EMR, I learned LAUSD had been warned by doctors and scientists, prior to installation, that the commercial grade Wi-Fi being considered was untested and potentially dangerous in school environments. Cindy Sage, an EMF expert and environmental scientist, critiqued URS Corporation’s (the designer and installer of the new Wi-Fi system), evaluation and could not support URS’ conclusions regarding the safety of LAUSD’s proposed Wi-Fi system. In February 2017, Sage wrote the following to LAUSD: “Children who attend LAUSD schools are being placed into classroom environments with pervasive exposures from wireless routers and devices, and for some of them, is likely to result in permanent electro hypersensitivity characterized by chronic health and cognitive impairments. The same is already true for some teachers who have sought accommodations due to their acquired hypersensitivity to wireless exposures.” The Executive Committee of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine wrote to LAUSD and stated, “it is unlikely that there are currently enough doctors in Los Angeles County familiar with the biological effects of microwave radiation to diagnose and treat the numbers of children who will potentially become symptomatic from exposure to your wireless system should you elect to install it. Statistics show that you can expect an immediate reaction in 3% of your students and time‐delayed reactions in 30% of them. This will also include teachers.” In my opinion, by using averages compared to “raw” data, the RF peaks/spikes to which students and staff are exposed each day, every day, over the course of an entire school day or school year (cumulative effects of spikes and exposure), are mitigated and diluted on paper, likely creating, and providing a false sense of safety to the public, parents, staff and students. Clearly, spikes, density, and time (duration) of exposure are important and should matter to those responsible for protecting the public and assuring safety measures. Here is an example of LAUSD’s RF protocol and evaluation: “For the purpose of the evaluation, The AVE data set was evaluated and compared to the LAUSD adopted criterion. A combination of the magnitude and the duration of the energy bursts are integrated by the SRM-3006 to provide the AVE power density results which are averaged for each frequency. The AVE power density is lower than the Maximum power density results. The average of the AVE (AVE-average) of each measurement is used for comparison to the adopted criterion.” In other words, averaging the spikes and peaks does not truly reflect real life exposure! The current FCC guidelines are outdated and only thermal based. The FCC and Department of Health and Human Services should not continue to ignore the overwhelming abundance of scientific studies proving biological harm caused by pulsed EMR/EMF/RF, nor should they allow RF spikes to be averaged and diluted over time. Medications are prescribed with specific instructions to minimize side effects and overdosing. The same safety precautions and concerns apply to overdosing on wireless radiation. More is not better and controls and guidelines are necessary. The FCC and Department of Health and Human Services must address this immediate public health crisis. Protocols and protective measures must be developed and applied in real time, before it is too late. Today, I no longer teach, something that was not only a career, but a great passion in my life. I loved teaching, found it stimulating, rewarding, and incredibly fulfilling. Because I enjoyed it so much, I intended to work for a lot longer, until a ripe old age, but I found it difficult to return to work without being reasonably accommodated. Unfortunately, I am unable to fill all my free time with meaningful activities and work due to the proliferation and installation of wireless antennas and devices everywhere. My husband and I removed our Wi-Fi and cordless phones, turned off our wireless emitting devices, and use hardwired connections. I have a cell phone, but do not keep it on and my husband mostly keeps his off around me. I know longer have the same freedom or luxury to enjoy limitless time out, travel, staying in a hotel, visiting family, and grocery shopping as I once did without feeling lousy. Living with Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome caused by EMFs (microwave sickness) is challenging and limiting. My quality of life has been severely reduced and none of it occurred by my choice: it was the direct result of the FCC’s, Department of Health and Human Services’, and FDA’s failures and disregard of biological harm caused by pulsed wireless radiation. My health, lifestyle, quality of life, and freedom to come and go as I please have been drastically and negatively affected. In addition, my income and retirement have been significantly reduced. I am very fortunate to have a supportive and loving husband and family. Still, though, my condition and losses have impacted us. Federal guidelines, limits, and protocols are needed to monitor and ensure the public’s safety from exposure to wireless radiation in real time, without averaging the spikes and peaks! No longer can we ignore biological effects caused by pulsed, wireless radiation. Although it may be an inconvenient truth, more is dangerous and is biologically disruptive; we are electrical beings. Too many people are already sick and more people will become seriously ill if we stand by and do nothing to address our chronic and limitless exposure to wireless radiation. I do not want others to suffer the same fate as me. /s/Laurie Brown Laurie Brown 4221 Noble Ave Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

In March of 2020, with the deployment of 5G, I was suddenly and dramatically deprived of my ability to walk and talk. It happened in less than a minute. At the time I was living in Cambridge, MA. A year later my neurologist found that my peripheral nervous system tested normal. In their professional opinion, something was keeping my brain from communicating with my body. Less than a month later, I had to go to Vermont – for my father’s funeral. With just two night’s sleep I fully regained my ability to walk and talk. As soon as I returned to Cambridge, I lost that ability to walk and talk again - in less than an hour. Thinking that reducing population density by almost 10x might be the key to restoring my health, I moved to Canton, MA. No such health effects materialized. In Canton, as in Cambridge, my symptoms are unsustainably aggravated as soon as any Wi-Fi device comes within 6 feet of me. My PCP has diagnosed me with Epidemic Vertigo, Ataxia and Dyslalia – etiologies “unknown”. Mounting evidence suggest that close proximity to neighboring EV’s charging at night, and a solar power plant less than a mile away, represent an important part of the problem. IMPORTANT CLUE: In Dave Stetzer’s professional opinion [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/dave-stetzer], the process of converting Alternating Current to Direct Current and vice versa, is a SIGNIFICANT OFFENDER. Ref: High Frequency Transients [HFT] Recent research [JAMA neurology Nov 2025] found that one out of two American’s were struggling with neurological disabilities in 2021. This is not a small problem. The mounting costs to our healthcare system have been snowballing unsustainably. AND Poorly thought-out electrical engineering may in fact also be hurting our competitive edge in the global economy.

The 1996 radiofrequency limits are long outdated, and with more and more impact studies that have been done in the past three decades proving, not suggesting, biological harm, there needs to be much tighter regulation regarding the communications industry and the increasing “electro-smog” problem and the detrimental effects of short-term and long-term exposure to these fields. We used to be able to place the responsibility (though still unfairly) on the end consumer to know the risks of the technology they partake in, but no longer are people exposed to one or two electromagnetic fields at a time – we are now entering a time where people are often exposed to ten, twenty, even more fields at a given time, and often don't escape that exposure throughout the entire day. Given the breakneck speed of technological innovation and adoption in the past three decades, and those technologies should be held to a stricter standard in order to protect the health of the people who use them. Not everyone feels WiFi or cell tower radiofrequencies, though more and more do - and others, it has a destructive impact on their lives. We have friends who have kids with brain tumors from being near cell phone towers, and we have known so-called “antenna refugees,” hypersensitive to the frequency radiation. My partner, who is hypersensitive to EMF, had to move when there was a cell tower constructed nearby and saw significant health decline at that time, fourteen years ago. We bought a property in Washington State and we paid the utility company to remove the smart meter because she couldn't sleep. We had the neighbors reduce their WiFi signal because it gave us both headaches, and now AT&T wants to install a cell tower in our neighborhood which, if they do, will force us to sell our property and move again and find a new place free of signal which, in an increasingly electrified civilization and culture, is becoming more and more difficult to find. We need much stricter regulations regarding exposure limits for the general public, especially children, women and hypersensitive people. We need a broad action plan for keeping certain areas (“white-zones”) completely pure and clean of any EMF/electrosmog, where these people can go (without going into a fight-or-flight response or nervous system going haywire), and for minimizing exposure in residential areas. We need to stop blinding ourselves about the side effects of technology for the sake of the GDP and to reconsider the health of the people. We need change.

Re: Health effects of Wireless Radiation, Cell towers, and Smart Utility Meters To the FCC 13-84: I am a resident of Hurricane, Washington County, Utah. I have been diagnosed with electromagnetic radiation (EMR) syndrome, also described as electromagnetic hypersensitivity. I write to request that the Department of Health and Human Services assess the health and safety of wireless infrastructure and of devices that place high-frequency voltage transients on building wiring, including smart utility meters; support independent, biologically based safety testing; and promote meaningful accommodations for people who cannot tolerate these exposures. Personal Circumstances It is critical that I limit exposure to electromagnetic radiation. My household uses a hardwired landline telephone and wired Ethernet. We have shielded our home with protective paint and other mitigation measures, at substantial cost. Even with those steps, I have become increasingly isolated in order to avoid exposures that I experience as medically serious. My autoimmune problems have worsened. My symptoms include, but are not limited to, loss of balance, headaches, chest pain, anemia, elevated blood sugar, hypotension, increased heart rate, and insomnia. I have groceries and prescriptions delivered. A walk outside is often painful. Doctor and dentist visits are very difficult. Hospitals I have used have not provided low-exposure accommodations. Smart Utility Meters I opted out of the electric smart meter. I was charged $228 to do so and then paid $22 per month for the opt-out meter. That opt-out meter produced high levels of electromagnetic interference on the wiring in my house. Average readings exceeded 1,650 mV. To my knowledge, no biologically based pre-market safety testing of this equipment was conducted. Hurricane City Power company did not measure the interference and did not respond for months to my request for an analog meter. When the meter was replaced with an analog meter, average interference readings fell to about 20 mV. The company then charged me $380 for the meter and required a $48 monthly reading fee. Washington County Water Conservancy District Manager Ron Thompson refused to allow me to opt out of the “smart” water meter, despite a letter from my physician. I have also measured radio frequency emissions from neighbors’ meters reaching my property, as well as Wi-Fi from surrounding residences. Other jurisdictions have begun to treat customer choice as a policy issue. Colorado’s H.B. 25-1175, enacted in 2025, requires large investor-owned electric utilities to give residential customers advance notice before installing advanced metering infrastructure and to honor a request for a noncommunicating meter. The statute does not create an unlimited statewide ban on installation and does not cover water meters. I cite it only as an example of a notice-and-choice framework that remains unavailable to many utility customers, including water customers in my area. The bill is available at https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1175. Cell Tower Near My Home A cell tower was placed next to my home on property owned by the Washington County Water Conservancy District, without notice to residents. There was no meaningful opportunity for public comment because residents were not notified. No environmental review was conducted. The tower is in the fall zone of a water tank and is close to residences. The tower was originally approved for three antennas. Many additional antennas have since been added, including a 5G upgrade and antennas for an internet provider. There was again no environmental review for the 5G upgrade. In 2009, a cell tower was approved—again without notice—within about 100 feet of my property and between two residential developments. No cellular service was provided for the next three years. In 2011, AT&T contracted to place cellular antennas on the tower. Additional antennas have been added or “upgraded” since then, including 5G service, without notice or review under the National Environmental Policy Act. Other internet providers have also been added. Upon activation of service on this tower in 2013, radiation levels increased and the quality of cell service declined sharply. Before the nearby tower was activated, I had about four bars of reception. After activation, I often have no bars, and occasionally one bar. Many neighbors report the same problem. This result is contrary to what residents expected. The previous nearest tower was about seven miles away. Because there were few obstructions, service at my location had been relatively good. Antennas on the new tower are directed toward the Hurricane Cliffs, which rise about 1,000 feet above our home. Reflected, out-of-phase signals can degrade service and can redirect scattered energy back toward the residential area. I contacted the Federal Communications Commission. The agency showed no interest in measuring or testing the signals. Other, more remote sites were available and would have reduced reflection from the cliffs. When my husband and I asked an employee of the tower company why this site was chosen, the answer was economic: it was cheaper to build where electrical and road infrastructure already existed. Some residents have been forced to install indoor small cells in their homes in order to obtain usable service. According to Verizon, coverage from such equipment can extend to multiple users. That radiation can reach neighboring properties. Loss of Wired Service Relying on landline DSL for internet and telephone service is no longer workable. CenturyLink is not maintaining the copper landline, and electromagnetic interference has made that line effectively useless. In a utilities easement near my home there are two radio frequency-emitting water meters, one radio frequency-emitting electric meter, a fiber-optic utilities box, and an electrical transformer. Their close proximity may be contributing to the landline interference. Fiber-optic service is available, but it is owned by an internet provider rather than by Washington County, which limits competition. Fiber also does not support traditional alarm-line service in the same way, and the optical equipment at the premises does not function when household electricity fails. Interference with Implanted Medical Devices A friend who used our tennis court later received a pacemaker. After the implant, he could no longer play on the court because the pacemaker stopped working there. When he entered our shielded home, the pacemaker functioned again. This occurred twice. The American Heart Association notes that certain electrical and radio frequency sources can interfere with pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. See https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/arrhythmia/prevention--treatment-of-arrhythmia/devices-that-may-interfere-with-icds-and-pacemakers. My husband’s grandchild, who has epilepsy, collapsed while playing on our tennis court. My husband has an Inspire implant to treat sleep apnea. He is concerned that electrical and wireless interference could impair the device and, in turn, his breathing. Radio frequency levels at St. George Regional Hospital have been high enough that the Inspire implant did not work there. The manufacturer’s materials discuss electromagnetic interference. See https://manuals.inspiresleep.com/. Neighborhood Health Observations I cannot prove that any individual illness was caused by the tower or by smart meters. I report the following because residents are frightened, some have moved or chosen not to build, and the pattern is why I ask the Department to investigate rather than leave the matter solely to the Federal Communications Commission. Individuals have died, and several people have told me they believe their symptoms are related to the tower or to smart utility meters. A neighbor had prostate cancer that was not initially thought to be fatal. The disease progressed despite extensive treatment, and he died. I noticed a smart utility meter on the wall outside the bedroom where the head of his bed was placed. The smart meters in our development are relatively high-powered because of large lot sizes of one acre or more. A neighbor died of a heart attack while walking along the road. Another neighbor had a heart attack while walking along the road. My late husband had a heart attack while walking along the road. Four other neighbors have had heart attacks. One neighbor who lived next to the cell tower had bowel cancer, was in remission, and later died of a pulmonary embolism. A neighbor allowed an internet provider to place an antenna on his home, over his office, to serve the surrounding area. He died of cancer. A woman who had been in remission from multiple myeloma came out of remission. Some residents have moved because of the tower. One decided not to build on their lot. As I understand the occupancy of the development, there are 41 lots, of which about eight are vacant; about 33 homes; and about 22 full-time residences. Among those households I am aware of three cancer deaths, eight heart attacks, including three fatal heart attacks, and one suicide of a person suffering severe pain. These are community observations, not a controlled study. My stepson and his wife lived in Magna, Utah, close to a cell tower. He died of stage 4 metastatic stomach cancer at age 54. His wife died shortly afterward. The spread of wireless radiation has been life-altering for me. I cannot use my pool or tennis court, and I cannot enjoy a walk. I am struggling with repeated infections and an immune system that no longer functions as it should. Requested Action The Department should take responsibility for assessing the safety of wireless devices and of equipment that places high-frequency voltage transients onto building wiring, including smart utility meters. Existing federal exposure limits and siting practices have not answered the health questions raised by people in my situation. I agree with the following recommendations of the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields: 1. Update national exposure limits on wireless, power-frequency, and other non-ionizing electromagnetic fields to reflect current scientific evidence and to protect against biological effects. 2. Fund independent research on long-term, cumulative biological and health effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic fields. 3. Require independent pre-market safety testing and independent post-market surveillance for wireless and other electromagnetic-field-emitting devices. 4. Ensure compliance tests for cell phones and Wi-Fi devices reflect children’s physiology and real-world use, including direct body contact. 5. Halt introduction of new technologies until rigorous pre-market safety testing is performed. 6. Inform families about the scientific literature on health risks and about ways to reduce exposure from phones, wireless devices, electronics, and other sources of electromagnetic fields. 7. Adopt a risk-mitigation approach that reduces children’s daily exposure at home and school and limits their use of wireless devices. 8. Promote safer designs, including wired networks, low-emission equipment, and devices that minimize user exposure. 9. Establish low-electromagnetic-field spaces in schools as a priority. I also ask the Department to support: A. Non-punitive analog or noncommunicating meter options for customers with medical need, including water as well as electric service; B. Meaningful public notice and health-focused review before cell towers are sited near homes or upgraded with additional antennas or 5G equipment; C. Preservation and maintenance of wired telephone and internet options; D. Low-electromagnetic-field accommodations in hospitals and clinics, especially for patients with implants or reported electromagnetic sensitivity; and E. Coordination with the Federal Communications Commission that does not treat thermal exposure limits as the end of the health inquiry, consistent with the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Environmental Health Trust v. FCC, available at https://www.fcc.gov/document/dc-circuit-decision-environmental-health-trust-v-fcc. The proliferation of wireless infrastructure is, for me and for several of my neighbors, not a convenience issue. It is a housing, medical-access, and daily-function issue. I respectfully ask the Department to treat it as a matter of public health. Respectfully submitted, Rosemarie Russell 854 W 3390 S Hurricane, Utah 84737