Towers, antennas & siting

I reside in Lewis County, Washington. I did not consent, nor do I consent today, to the continuous, involuntary exposure to pulsed modulated, biologically active electrical and radiofrequency / microwave (RF/MW) radiation. The health effects of such have been widely studied by government agencies including from the US Navy in 1972 and by thousands of scientists worldwide. You need only look so far as the International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space which was signed by over 24,000 professionals demanding a response to what can only be called a crisis brought on by lack of proper public policy on wireless technology. Dr Martin Pall, Professor Emeritus from Washington State University, has studied the effects of RF on the body. His work shows that RF radiation causes oxidative stress and leads to the depletion of glutathione which is critical in melatonin production. His overall assessment is that the damages caused by RF radiation are causing a tidal wave of dementia which we are seeing at earlier and earlier ages. I lost my mother, my mother-in-law, my 64 year old sister-in-law, two uncles and now my own husband is in Stage 5 early onset Alzheimers at age 67. This is not genetic. My father died in 2017. He had spent his last few years unable to sleep. My Mom's memory started failing in the early 2010's. I believe both my parents suffered from the installation of a smart meter as neither had a cell phone and they did not have wifi. As a normal consumer and well educated professional, I did not have any clue that the tech I was using in my work and personal life could be harmful. In 2010, the time of the installation of the smart meter on my home in Oregon, I became unable to sleep and became extremely anxious and depressed. These are symptoms caused by exposure to pulsed radiofrequency radiation. I'd get what felt like restless leg syndrome but all over my body. It turns out that response was from an increasing sensitivity to all electronics. The trigger was the new smart meter. At the time, I did not know what was causing my symptoms. I went to my doctor and sought treatment. I'm now on SSDI. I spent two years trying to treat a mental health condition that only existed as the result of the exposure to EMF to which I'd become increasingly sensitive. And the medication could not help an ongoing toxic exposure. It was adding another biological insult to one of the very systems that's electrical in nature and that's damaged by EMF exposure - the nervous system. By 2015, I'd lost the ability to read more than a few paragraphs and I struggled to write my own name. The fatigue was so bad that when I went shopping for groceries, I had to hold onto the cart just to get around the store. At age 46, I had people stop me and ask if I was OK. Any stress resulted in extreme outbursts as EMF exposure symptoms include irritability which isn't surprising because when your body is under constant assault, you are in a high cortisol state. In 2017, we moved to a rural community where I thought I'd be safe. We had no wireless devices. The smart meter was only the kind that could be read once a month by a truck when they drove by taking readings. My health improved. But in 2024, the meters were changed to a constantly pulsing type and my health became absolutely devastated once again. I became unable to leave my home. After a few months, we removed the meter but the damage was done. I'd become so sensitive to all EMF fields, I could no longer tolerate my own home. I moved my old motorhome to my pasture where I measured the lowest fields (RF, AC and magnetic) and I lived out there without running water and with little electricity. After several months, I made the difficult decision to move again which meant packing all of our belongings by myself as my husband could not remember if he was packing or unpacking a box. The process of even looking for another home was so brutal, I had to be helped out of many homes. Because every county surrounding me had moved to smart meters for power, I could not properly evaluate other fields. I finally gambled and settled. Here we pay $35/month for the privilege to not be irradiated by our meter. I still often sleep in the motorhome. My symptoms include burning sensations, screen dermatitis, dizziness, heart palpitations, chronic insomnia, cognitive fog, extreme fatigue, irritability and an inability to concentrate. I have debilitating digestive issues I believe are being caused by over exposure when I do try to live like a normal human being. Everyone including Social Security is now requiring a cell phone for identity verification to access services online. I find it repulsive to have to pay for the technology that's destroying everything I love including me. Technology that is offensive biologically and disabling to a human being should not be a mandatory exposure by design of our infrastructure.

I cannot use computers or laptops because they cause an irritation which after a while becomes intolerable with, in some cases, physiological effects, such as difficulty breathing and chest discomfort. This seriously limits my employability. Also I can only use a smartphone in short bursts as its use after a few minutes produces a dull numbness like discomfort in the head. Also I have been suffering from tinnitus for many years which I estimate coincided with the adoption of 4G networks. The usage of wifi close to me gives a discomfort at the beginning which will later progress to an unbearable sensation which gives the impression of the occurrence of nerve degradation. There was a study done which I would agree with from my experience, with the link as follows: https://icbe-emf.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/ICBE-EMF-Child-Health-Cell-Phone-Cell-Tower-EMF-Position-Statement-PDF-982026-1.pdf

Today we know that physiological behaviour is far more nuanced than was realized when the radiation standards were created in the 90s. There are several avenues of causation possible beyond just that resulting from DNA's heating of the human tissue. This can include damage directly from the radiation that impact the electromagnetic interactions of enzymes and/or nucleotides with their substrates without heat being involved, not to mention the possibility of radiation creating stress inflammatory cytokines without heat being the causative etiology. Ample evidence of this possibility is present in tissue culture and animal models. Moreover, the chronic exposure to the radiation over time has not even begun to be evaluated (cell phones held against the heart or brain, cell towers, etc.) The standards from the 90s are absurdly outdated when you consider the mass exposure of ever larger amounts of radiation that your constituents are being exposed to. Studies are needed but their results wouldn't be known for years. First do no harm.

I want to write a coherent comment here. But the truth is - I am far too angry with the FCC to do it. And far to sick and tired of this whole situation and thoroughly annoyed by your requirement to cite a scientific study to be taken seriously. You mean - like the study that shows how 5g de-oxigenates the air in order to operate? And reactive molds and so-forth, then thrive in the environment. Leading to mold infections. Just one lousy effect - scientifically shown - yet study gets revoked in 2020? Why am I responsible for making the FCC actually read science? I've had to leave my city of choice for a few reasons, largely related to over-developed, unchecked wireless antennna constructions and poorly monitored smart meters, all contributed to ridiculous levels of dirty electricity. Plus the mulitple cellphones always on, and wireless routers, always creating high ambient radiation levels in space after space. I've luckily been able to work from home, but after tripping on a sidewalk, blocked up by some joker zigging all over the place, talking loudly on a cellphone - I ended up losing my job due to those injuries. But I was also half asleep that day - like every day - thanks to the insomnia that comes with having an environment of high EMF and RF forced into my home by celltowers, city cameras, and the neighbors' wireless. AND a the whole building's bank of smart meters under my bedroom - which I did stop using - and moved to the living room to sleep - due to waking with injuries. One should not be getting injured while simply sleeping. But shifting rooms did nothing to stop the discordant line noise from untested, rushed to market, cellular and electrical products. Or the injuries for that matter, which I will not bore you with in detail. I will say this one part again - not to mention the horrific electrical line noise that comes off the lines from the dirty electric, pumped due to the meters, etc. Which is also the case where I had to move to - apparently the grid is now so trashed - there is no where 'clean' to live. My patience is done. Your agency is paid off. My life has been irrevokably changed and lots of time is gone that I will never get back. But the FCC can get off their duffs now - and force the wide-scale environmental impact studies that should have been done in the first place. Not to mention - there are physical areas of my old city that have crazy high ambient radiation levels. These towers creating this issue - they need to go. The city cameras? All need their power setting checked. Banks of smart meters? Need to go. We deserve a safe car or space on public transit, buses and planes as well. I could keep going - but why are we called on to do your jobs ???? Well, I am available for hire - I could help you get your act together. Help you structure some studies. Because right now - it's just Shame on this agency.

As American citizens and human beings with the right of keeping our bodies and minds healthy - we deserve full testing and transparency as to how EMF or any other form of wireless or wired technology can be affect our health and our families health. This way we can make a fully informed decision if we would like to be exposed to such harms. We should also not be forced to have towers put anywhere or place of residence.

I have been severely affected by cell tower radiation, smart meter RF radiation and line noise (voltage transients and harmonics from switched mode power supplies), cell phone radiation, LED lights, and essentially anything that emits a PULSED EMF. Cell tower installed 1000 ft from my home. I didn't know it because it was hidden by trees. But suddenly, I wasn't sleeping so well. A year later, I discovered the cell tower but made no association between my poorer sleep and the tower. Yet when I'd visit my parents, who lived where, at the time, there was essentially no cell reception, I slept well again. In 2012, I finally realized that the tower was the likely cause of my poorer sleep. The other troubling thing was, the year the cell tower was installed, the number of insects dropped by about 1/3. All insects, not just some types. I wondered about it, but thought it might be some sort of cyclical or climatic thing. But the populations never recovered. Twelve years later, smart meters were installed. The next year, the insect population was reduced to 1/3 of what it had been pre-cell-tower. The insects never recovered. Four years later, there were hardly even any beetles. They seem to have been the one bug that was more resilient or unaffected than the others. Then, at my parents' home, where I'd always slept really well, I had near-total insomnia. I tossed and turned all night. I didn't know why. My only speculation was that it must be emotional (don't we all go to that when something is unexplained?), though I'd no idea what that might be. Year after year after year, I could not sleep and would go home completely worn out. Then I learned that a PLC meter had been installed on their home in January of the year I became unable to sleep. We installed a whole-house dirty electricity filter and I had no more problems. The smart meters were installed in my neighborhood in 2012. That completely changed my life. This wasn't the poor sleep from the cell tower. This was all-encompassing: terrible, unrestful sleep; transient memory loss; severe fatigue; heart palpitations. There's so much more I could recount, but this gives you a glimpse into what happens to a not unsignificant proportion of the population.

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. 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. Specifically, 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. There is published, peer-reviewed data which shows clear evidence of harm from RF radiation that the FCC should be sure to consider carefully and diligently. BioInitiative 2012 has amalgamated many studies, although there are far more available. https://bioinitiative.org In particular, these studies are valuable: https://bioinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/sec09_2012_Evidence_Effects_Neurology_behavior.pdf https://bioinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/sec08_2007_Evidence_%20Effects_%20Immune_System.pdf https://bioinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/sec07_2007_Evidence_for_Stress_Response.pdf I have personal experience in this area. Prolonged exposure to RF radiation can give me headache, brain fog, heart palpitations, sweating, and a feeling of internal heat. The microwave sources that cause these symptoms include cell towers, cell phones, wifi routers, and cordless phones.

The FCC is a captured agency whose revolving doors include commissioners that are former CEOs, lawyers and lobbyists of the telecom industry. The FCC has refused to update their safety standards since 1996, even though a $25 million dollar industry-funded research concluded that wireless radiation raised the risk of brain tumors. Those 1996 safety standards considered only the thermal effects of wireless radiation for brief exposure...no long term exposure to the exponentially stronger electromagnetic radiation of today's technologies. In August 2021, the FCC was ordered to update their safety standards in the federal case Environmental Health Trust,et. al. V FCC supported by over 11,000 scientific health and safety studies. Yet the wireless industry has proceeded as if this ruling never took place. Updated safety standards for human health are long overdue and must be integrated into systems to protect Americans NOW. The world's largest insurance companies have responded by excluding any liability coverage for claims "directly or indirectly arising out of, resulting from, or contributed to, by electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetism, radio waves or noise." Lloyds of London and Swiss Reinsurance Company have put wireless radiation in the highest risk category, next to smoking and asbestos. 30+ countries around the world including the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil have banned Chinese-made 5G technology because of national security concerns. Wireless broadband is not cyber secure, it's unreliable in bad weather, it's a proven fire hazard, it's untested for EMF safety, it uses much more energy than fiber-optic and its giant equipment is aesthetically offensive. Only fiber-optic cable direct to homes and businesses delivers speed-of-light internet connection that will meet the needs required for next generation programs and services, with no threat to cyber security because it can't be hacked and it poses no health risk to humans or the environment. Californians have already paid for fiber optic to their homes in their phone bills over a 20+ year period. The IRREGULATORS vs. FCC lawsuit in 2020 exposed the largest accounting scandal in American history where telecom corporations fraudulently funnelled the money already paid by their customers for fiber-optic-to- the-premises, into wireless technology instead. Where is that TRILLION DOLLARS now? I implore you to update safety standards NOW, using third party testing, NOT funded by the wireless industry. Sincerely, Jeannie Ferrara, Realtor & Concerned Citizen For more eye-opening information, click on any of the links below for articles in the news and organizations that promote safe and responsible technology: https://sooke.civicweb.net; https://ourweb.tech/fires-and-collapses/ https://5GFreeCalifornia.org; http://www.Americans4RT.org/california; http://www.mdsafetech.com; http://www.bioinitiative.org https://ehtrust.org/cell-phone-towers-lower-property-values-documentation-research/ https://scientists4wiredtech.com › cell-tower-installation... The WHO-commissioned systematic reviews on health effects of radiofrequency radiation provide no assurance of safety

I have a friend who is sensitive to wireless, she can feel it, and is unable to sleep near any RF like cell towers, wifi routers, cellphones, and more. I have seen this have a huge negative impact on her life and health, and she is unable to travel much and often has to drive distances to do normal activities. I am very concerned for the lack of science, studies and protocols to protect the public’s health, and that no real third party testing, science or disclosure about health has been done or shared for over 30 years. It’s hard to believe that we have been in the dark about safety, health and wireless exposure all this time, and that needs to change right now. There are people who are at risk most for health issues including children, and more research and transparency is needed now. Please make current testing, funding and appropriate scientific research required starting now, and public health conversations mandatory and mainstream. Corporations shouldn’t decide what’s safe for us, science and health should be the main focus, and the public process should be the priority. We need to closely examine non-ionizing wireless radiation and all RF. European and Scandinavian countries have done this- they prohibit cell towers near schools and homes for a reason. We need to follow their example. Put science and safety first before profit. Thank you. I am attaching relevant articles and studies: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cardiovascular-medicine/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2025.1499499/full https://bioinitiative.org/research-summaries/ ttps://www.techsafeschools.org/science https://www.babysafeproject.org/science https://mdsafetech.org/conversion-and-exposure-limits-EMREMF/

I am writing to urge the FCC to fully consider evidence and real-world experiences concerning the health impacts of radiofrequency (RF) radiation on children and adults, as well as the impacts of long-term and cumulative exposure on wildlife and the environment. To date, the FCC has failed to review available studies and the experiences of actual people to make meaningful and appropriate impact assessments. This failure is a violation of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ remand concerning its decades-old RF radiation exposure guidelines. 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. Specifically, 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. The FCC is not a health agency and does not have expertise in medicine, biology or public health. Yet, the agency continues to assert authority over RF exposure standards and is preparing to reach conclusions about whether its existing guidelines adequately protect the public. This issue matters to me personally because of the proliferation of cell towers, 5G installations, and wireless devices everywhere which we cannot get away from. I've experienced increased sensitivities to RF exposure which has caused vertigo, brain fog, insomnia and other negative health consequences for me and my family members. The FCC must give meaningful consideration to the experiences and evidence before it and to fully address each of the issues identified by the court.