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Posted 2026-09-28#26110078479 · Permanent link ↗

DIGITAL technology is pulsed. Human and wildlife biology is accustomed to natural radio waves, and is not…

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DIGITAL technology is pulsed. Human and wildlife biology is accustomed to natural radio waves, and is not adjusted to the impact of intermittent pulses generated without relief from cell masts. Therefore, digital technology must be either superseded or used with the greatest precaution. THIS submission identifies four areas where there are gaps in necessary protection for long term public health, as follows: CELL masts capable of RF transmission are being installed in residential streets— # Without long term effects having been proven safe for human and wildlife health; and # Without reported adverse effects having been avoided or remedied; and # Without the democratic agreement of residents living within reach and sight of the technology; and # Without adequate monitoring of transmission levels. THE regulatory authorities are failing to protect human and wildlife wellbeing in those four ways. Through disregard of public wishes, the FCC is denying the public control of our own health. ISSUES of public concern regarding positioning of cell masts in residential areas: # The telecom companies are not required to remedy loss of good health, nor pay for shielding materials to avoid effects, nor compensate loss of pleasure in life. # There is no provision for the public to have rights of objection to the choice of site for a cell mast, nor rights to compensation and fair settlement. # Recourse to legal processes is beyond the means of most households. That is, the costs of shielding materials, re-designing bedrooms where children sleep, and “leaving all fair” should fall on the telecommunication companies and not on the householder.
Posted 2026-09-28#26110078473 · Permanent link ↗

In 2019 I was in perfect health and suddenly began to experience acute symptoms of tremors and muscle fli…

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In 2019 I was in perfect health and suddenly began to experience acute symptoms of tremors and muscle flinching at night, extreme fatigue, pain in hands when holding a phone, pain in chest when near a computer or remote control, interrupted sleep. After much consternation and searching for answers I learned Smart Meters were installed in my neighborhood in January of 2019 and I clearly determined that to be the source. I provided a doctor's medical verification to the power company to request an opt out meter. During the five weeks I waited for the meter after submitting the application, I was suffering so badly I called the power company multiple times to plead for the installation and this is not at all my nature. After I received an opt-out meter in July, the tremors and flinching stopped immediately. But only after implenting MANY other mitigation measures I learned about from EMF advocacy groups (which took a lot of digging to find) did I experience nearly complete relief. But my health never returned to the full measure of stamina as before smart meters, and if I get a lot of exposure I start to have pains again when near devices and fatigue. Apparently the 7 months of smart meter exposure until I received an opt out meter in July 2019, and the ubiquitous presence of 5G, took a serious toll on my body. The EXTENSIVE measures I had to take to effectively mitigate include: a townhome neighbor was kind enough to install a smart meter guard; eliminating wifi router; turning off internet hotspot whenever not in use; turning off breakers in sleep area at night; shielding blankets; removing all battery powered gadgets and electronics from sleep area; always placing my cellphone on a table to scroll or make calls; placing devices in another room or turning them off when not using them; limiting time on devices. This last measure has affected my ability to work since my work required 8-10 hours on a computer several days of the week. If I spend significant hours on a computer with wifi connected I start to get exhausted again. I can only surmise that untold millions are suffering without knowing the cause. And I am very greatly concerned about future generations. I am happy to testify or sign off on the complete truthfulness of these statements.
Posted 2026-09-28#26110078465 · Permanent link ↗

I am writing regarding the FCC’s response to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ remand concerning its dec…

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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. I am pleased that the Court directed the FCC to provide a reasoned explanation for its determination that its guidelines adequately protect humans against harmful effects of RF radiation unrelated to cancer. It is so important to require the FCC to address the impacts of RF radiation on children, the health implications of long-term exposure, the ubiquity of wireless devices and technological developments, impacts on the environment, and the adequacy of the FCC’s testing procedures for cell phones and other portable devices. I can remember reading the package insert of instructions when our cell phones were 2 and 3 G, and we were instructed not to keep the phone to the ear and to use an ear piece to have a conversation on the phone. I've seen my partners phone tells you when you are holding the phone too close. Obviously it is noted that wireless radiation can affect one's health. My daughter's children always had difficulty sleeping, when she lived next door to me in Long Beach, New York, her children now sleep much better at night since she moved out of New York on top of a mountain in North Carolina where the nearest tower is 3 miles away. She moved 4 years ago and her children then were 4, 7 and 10, so they were not infants when they had difficulty sleeping. I also have difficulty sleeping at night. but we have a house in the Adirondacks and I sleep great there, I hear a constant hum here in Long Beach. It is not tinnitus. I am an RN and I know the difference. The hum is not inside my head. It comes from outside and being that I also am a musician, I needed to hum to myself to match the note sound and it is an F sharp on the lower end of the piano give or take a 1/4 note. It hasn't changed the note since I've been noting it. I wired my household desk top computers to ethernet and turned off the wi- fi, to diminish the exposure while I'm on the computer, however of course I still have wifi in the house for TV and phone use. And the low hum is constant all day and night. I use a phone case with an EMF radiation barrier. I don't know how much it helps, but I know there are devices that help block the radiation. Perhaps the towers can be housed in a blocking radiation structure. I do know in the medical field we recommend not keeping cell phones close to the body or in pockets, especially for couples going through fertility treatments. So it seems it is known that EMF radiation does negatively affect the body. The big question here is how much do we let corporate greed dictate policy impacting all of humanity in a negative way. Thank you for your reaching out to Americans for their experiences and hopefully you can devise and implement ways to protect us. Lori Field, RN
Posted 2026-09-28#26110078409 · Permanent link ↗

I am submitting this comment in response to FCC’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs…

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I am submitting this comment in response to FCC’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of an individual, retired Registered Veterinary Technician, parent, and human being. During January 2020, my family and I were sick with what seemed like a bad chest cold with cold/flu like symptoms. This was at the exact same time that AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile were all firing up their many 5G towers around the California central valley where I lived at the time. This was right after thousands of 5G towers were fired up in and around Wuhan China in September/October 2019 causing cold/flu-like “covid” symptoms”. I have also worked from home using a laptop computer and wifi router which caused me symptoms of irritability, anxiety, depression, dizziness, headaches, nausea, heaviness in the chest, fatigue, sleep disturbances, tinnitus and other cold/flu-like symptoms. Once I took out the router my symptoms improved but it wasn’t until I left my job to move out of state and was no longer working on a computer for 40 hours a week that I really started feeling better. I have had these same symptoms whenever I spend any time in a residence or building that has wifi and/or a large amount of electronic equipment, like the San Joaquin County building where the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors meet. I and others were sick for several days after spending hours waiting for my turn to speak in a Planning Commission meeting to address a legal matter regarding an illegal cell tower contract by the San Joaquin River Club where I used to live. I have also worked in several veterinary emergency hospitals with a lot of electronic equipment including fluid pumps, ultrasound machines, laboratory equipment and a CT scanner which caused irritability, anxiety, etc. I currently live in a low EMF environment which has really helped to alleviate my symptoms of Electromagnetic Radiation Sickness/Syndrome. I recently had an experience in which I had to gave my iPhone 16 on my person for at least 8 hours during the day because I was waiting for an important phone call in a town with several cell towers and 5G service. By the time I got home and no longer needed to have my phone on, I felt ill like I had the “flu”. I felt nauseous, had a headache and had to go to bed early. It took a couple days to get back to normal. I support FCC taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation and finally updating the 1996 guidelines. Questions about human health should be addressed by federal agencies with appropriate expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health, and the experiences of individuals and families who report being affected should be considered alongside the scientific evidence. I urge FCC to carefully evaluate these experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research, give particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations, and establish appropriate federal research priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health. Thank you for providing individuals and families with an opportunity to be heard.
Posted 2026-09-25#26110078243 · Permanent link ↗

Sept 24, 2026 ET Docket No. 13-84 Reassessment of FCC RF Limits/Policies. I'm Jaime Schunkewitz, an elect…

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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.
Posted 2026-09-25#26110078225 · Permanent link ↗

Please create meaningful EMF standards. Good effects will redound in human health and our beloved natural…

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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.
Posted 2026-09-25#26110078193 · Permanent link ↗

I am extremely concerned that the extreme ubiquity of wireless devices everywhere and of wireless phone t…

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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.
Posted 2026-09-25#26110078192 · Permanent link ↗

Hello, I am EMF Sensitive and have spent countless hours and a lot of money, along with others in our cit…

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Hello, I am EMF Sensitive and have spent countless hours and a lot of money, along with others in our city to stop the smart meter roll out to no avail. When I was not at home, 2 city policemen showed up at my property ( I have video) along with 2 city employees, one of whom placed a smart meter on my home even after I spoke to the city council several times and submitted certified letters asking for health information on the smart meter. No city official/employee ever responded to my letters, no one returned my calls or addressed my concerns that I spoke of at the city council meetings even though they took my information indicating that someone would get back to me. Once the smart meter was on, I decided to just wait and see if it actually did affect me. It started right away, with me having sudden onset of headaches, sleepless nights and generally feeling ill to my stomach. My husband called the city within a week to ask them to replace with the opt-out meter. Our city charges $24.65/ month for the opt out and has expressed that they want it to be expensive to keep others from opting out. Xcel charges about $11/month ( county provider)You can imagine what a hardship this expense is but many of us are sick from this exposure. We feel it is extortion. Many in our community have opted out( I believe over 300) and significantly more said they would opt-out if they could afford the fee. Someone did a Nextdoor poll and a large portion of our community did not want these harmful devices on/near our homes. Once the opt-out was placed on our home, my headaches went away and I could sleep better. Since they have been placing these devices in our neighborhood, I still feel ill in my home. I have learned there is what my electrician calls dirty electricity everywhere now and I am still being affected my neighbor's smart meters, so it is hard to get away from these frequencies that are harmful to humans, animals and even our plants. I know that before they changed out my original meter, I felt good, especially after I replaced the LED lights for incandescent ones. Now, since the smart meter and opt-out meter roll-out, I feel ill in my own home and a lot poorer, too. We should not have to pay to keep our bodies healthy. I believe that it is extortion. There has to be a better way for our health and the health of future generations. Thank you.
Posted 2026-09-25#26110078168 · Permanent link ↗

Wireless radiation standards in the U.S. are outdated and severely deficient. Thousands of independent st…

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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.
Posted 2026-09-25#26110078152 · Permanent link ↗

I am writing regarding the FCC’s response to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ remand concerning its dec…

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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. This issue matters to me because my life, my career and my health has been irreparably harmed by the ubiquitous and insidiously ever increasing RF exposure. I am unable to live a normal life or perform in my career. My family has ostracized and then accepted my situation, although visits are fewer and short due to their dependence on their devices for their being and livelihoods. It breaks my heart to watch them utilize their wireless devices and to realize they have no choice in today’s world and recognizing the difficulty I have experienced by not using them and doing my best to avoid the RF radiation. I have had to become a recluse and cannot even go to a city park as they all have towers, placed there to avoid public scrutiny. Fear of being ostracized goes to a whole new level because the device addiction predicates that people are afraid to know or literally do not want to know deleterious effects of RF radiation. While I was still practicing medicine, I came to recognize that people would rather swallow poisonous chemicals with multiple side effects (otherwise known as pharmaceuticals) or have the AV nodes in their heart atria burned (“ablation therapy”) and undergo chemotherapy rather than recognize the cause of their anxiety, lack of cognition, insomnia, headaches, joint pain, insulin resistance, type II diabetes, high blood pressure, tachycardia, a-fib, cancer, etc., etc. I have researched the subject and written a book, still yet to be published because I was warned it would never be picked up by major publishers as they will not bite the hand that feeds them. Media rarely touches the topic for the same reason. Yet thousands upon thousands of people continue to proliferate their ownership and use of wireless devices while increasing their “pills for the ills”, undergoing procedures and opting in for surgeries, because, you know, “my insurance pays for it”. It is estimated that thirty percent of the population is experiencing symptoms from RF radiation exposure. If an evaluation of the pharmaceuticals used to address symptoms were included in that analysis, then 98% of the population would be shown to have one or more symptoms from the man-made frequencies that the FCC has allowed to proliferate in our environment at an unprecedented rate with no regard for safety. The FCC’s failure to adequately protect humans was seemingly purposeful since it has allowed legislation to pass in 1996 that prohibits communities and people from objecting to towers and antennae placement based on health or environmental influence. The FCC is a captured agency via lobbying and the the revolving door of the wireless industries’ and FCCs board positions and in my not-so-humble opinion, the agency should be dismantled. My ‘opinion’ is also supported by complete disregard of the Court ruling that directed the FCC to provide a reasoned explanation for its determination that its guidelines adequately protect humans against harmful effects of RF radiation unrelated to cancer. That’s right - on August 13, 2021, the D.C. Circuit ruled the FCC failed to provide a reasoned explanation for its determination. Specifically, five years ago, the court required the FCC to address the impacts of RF radiation on children, the health implications of long-term exposure, the ubiquity of wireless devices and technological developments, impacts on the environment, and the adequacy of the FCC’s testing procedures for cell phones and other portable devices. In July 2026, the FCC adopted a fourfold increase in power limits for wireless devices, with no public health analysis of what that would do to exposure. It has moved to end environmental safety reviews for cell tower projects. This is unfathomable! The FCC has an immediate obligation to fully consider evidence and real-world experiences concerning the health and environmental impacts of wireless radiation, including non-cancer health effects, impacts on children, long-term and cumulative exposure, cancer, and impacts on wildlife and the environment. Since the FCC is not a health agency and does not have expertise in medicine, biology or public health, it must work with the HHS and other health agencies to evaluate the plethora of studies that DO show harm. WE DON’T NEED MORE STUDIES. Other countries have been gracious enough to provide valid studies that prove harm. Yet, the FCC continues to assert authority over RF exposure standards and is preparing to reach conclusions about whether its existing guidelines adequately protect the public. I urge the FCC to recognize the critical role of federal health agencies, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and to rely on appropriate health and biological expertise when addressing the issues identified by the court. I urge the FCC to give meaningful consideration to the experiences and evidence before it and to fully address each of the issues identified by the court.

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