Children & vulnerable groups

I am the Board Secretary of the nonprofit, Community and Friends of Seattle-Tacoma Pet Cemetery, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. I am writing as an individual to provide my comments today. I am an advocate for the historic Seattle-Tacoma Pet Cemetery est. 1950 on Kent’s West Hill in unincorporated South King County in a community of color, immigrants, refugees, and low income housing in Kent, Washington. A 100-foot industrial AT&T cell phone tower was installed by Crown Castle inside active Burial Block 13 with graves and mourners just over 115 feet from the neighbors in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the wrong zone without a conditional use permit in violation of King County Code and Washington State cemetery law. It is dangerously close, illegal, unlawful, and unethical. It is damaging to the sacred burial grounds and is physically, mentally, and emotionally damaging. Not to mention it is aesthetically ugly and spiritually cruel to the living and to our beloveds. Humans, pets, K-9 officers, and service animals for the blind are all buried here, some as whole families. Crown Castle did not disclose human burials here and the historic significance of the historic cemetery here on the application. They railroaded it through the King County Permit department. Cemeteries function as a sacred space, regardless of a cemetery patron or visitor’s religious background. A cemetery is intended to be a place removed from the noise, hustle. Commercial infrastructure as a cell tower is, is an intrusion of a sacred burial ground meant for honor and memory. Radio frequency radiation exposes harm to people and animals who are mourning their loved ones. Cell towers take away the calm and harmonious space that it was meant to be in perpetuity. We want responsible placement of cell phone towers. We are not against cell towers and advocate for the safe and appropriate placement of cell towers — not here! Additionally, as a public schools educator, board certified in special education, I am against cell phone towers near schools because they raise valid safety concerns for children and the staff that work with them. Research notes that children absorb more radio-frequency radiation due to their developing bodies which exposes them to long-term health problems such as cancer and neurological symptoms. (https://ehsciences.org/addressing-cell-towers-at-schools-science-based-policy-health-risks/) Thank you for hearing my comments and taking them into advisement. Please update the 1996 wireless safety limits to truly safe limits in 2026, 30 years and counting.

I had my smart meter removed. I do not have WiFi in my home. I do not want that direct exposure. I had to buy a new/ used car which has wife in it. I feel physically awful when I drive it. I know that my dogs and I suffer because of the matrix of wireless electricity that encapsulates mankind. My great grand babies are exposed daily at their daycare. It’s heart breaking! Technology is treacherous, seems no turning back!

Thank you for this opportunity to comment on the serious health impacts of EMF radiation on the human body. EMF is negatively impactful to children and adults in the following categories: NEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECTS CARCENEGETIC EFFECTS INFLAMATORY EFFECTS (OXIDATIVE STRESS) I am a physician with over 40 years of clinical experience. Please consult the scientific articles referenced below for clear evidence of these effects. The best background paper of all of these is: Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health Environmental Research Published July 2018 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118300355 I will also comment that EMF radiation is widespread in hospital settings with the extensive use of WiFi enabled instruments. By permitting these signals to remain in hospitals, students, providers, teachers, patients, and the care team will all be detrimentally impacted. While it is very disappointing that HHS and the FCC have been slow to recognize the volume of evidence corroborating these serious health impacts----it is never too late to enact rules that will better protect the public going forward. Thank you for your consideration of this important scientific evidence of the harmful impacts of EMF radiation on the human body. REFERENCES 1. THE IMPACT OF EMF ON THE NEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN i. Health effects of electromagnetic fields on children Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics 2020;63(11):422-428. Published online: May 26, 2020 https://www.e-cep.org/journal/view.php?doi=10.3345/cep.2019.01494 ii. Environmental and auto-induced RF-EMF adult and children far-field exposure simulations between 450 MHz and 26 GHz Physics in Medicine & Biology, Volume 71, Number 17 Published 2 September 2026 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6560/ae97ac/pdf 2. CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECTS OF EMF i. The interplay of heart rate variability and ventricular repolarization parameters in the obese state: a review Cardiovascular Endocrinology & Metabolism Published March 2025. https://www.ovid.com/jnls/cardiovascularendocrinology/fulltext/10.1097/xce.0000000000000323~the-interplay-of-heart-rate-variability-and-ventricular?context=latestarticles ii. Exposure to cell phones reduces heart rate variability in both normal-weight and obese normotensive medical students Explore (NY) Published Jul-Aug 2020 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32249199/ 3. CARCENEGETIC EFFECTS OF EMF i. Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health Environmental Research Published July 2018 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118300355 II. Risks to Health and Well-Being From Radio-Frequency Radiation Emitted by Cell Phones and Other Wireless Devices Sec. Radiation and Health Volume 7 - 2019 Published 12 August 2019 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2019.00223/full 4. INFLAMATORY EFFECTS (OXIDATIVE STRESS) OF EMF i. Thermal and non-thermal health effects of low intensity non-ionizing radiation: An international perspective Environ Pollution Published Nov. 2018 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30025338/ ii. Oxidative mechanisms of biological activity of low-intensity radiofrequency radiation Electromagnetic Biology Medicine Published July 2016 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26151230/

Children should not be treated as small adults in RF/EMF research or risk assessment. Pregnancy, infancy, childhood, and adolescence are periods of rapid growth including and not exclusive of neurological, immune, endocrine, reproductive, and metabolic development. However, children today are growing up in an electromagnetic environment that is not only fundamentally different from that experienced by previous generations, but are receiving extensive, undocumented and unstudied cumulative exposures. Wi-Fi, cell phones, tablets, Bluetooth devices, smart meters, wireless baby monitors, smartwatches, wireless classrooms, IVs, and increasingly wireless medical devices add to a child's overall exposure beginning very early in life (preconceptually and fetal exposures as well). The available pediatric research remains inadequate to answer some fundamental questions. A 2022 systematic review by Bodewein and colleagues examined 42 epidemiological and 11 experimental studies involving children and adolescents. Evidence regarding cognition, behavior, and subjective symptoms was judged low to inadequate, while evidence regarding early childhood development, brain activity, cancer, and physiological outcomes was considered inadequate for drawing conclusions. Investigators cautioned that these findings should not be interpreted as demonstrating that RF exposure is safe for children. An absence of demonstrated harm is not equivalent to demonstrated long-term safety. Those of us with concerns are neither 'anti-science' or 'anti-technology'. Wireless medical devices such as the continuous blood glucose monitor (CGM) require a more nuanced approach. I care for children with type 1 diabetes who depend upon CGMs. The clinical benefits of these devices are significant and potentially lifesaving. A medically necessary CGM should therefore not be treated as equivalent to a smartwatch simply because both use wireless technology. Looking at comparative dosimetry across common pediatric devices would help clinicians and families make rational decisions based upon actual exposure and benefit rather than fear. I also encourage HHS to examine exposures in electric and Waymo-type vehicles. A published study measuring extremely low-frequency magnetic fields in the rear seats of ten electric vehicles specifically considered children because their smaller bodies may place them closer to electrical systems beneath the vehicle floor. The measured magnetic fields were far below current international exposure limits, which is reassuring. This does not answer the question of long-term developmental exposure. Research must characterize passenger-compartment exposures by seating position and age, and evaluation the following conditions: acceleration, cruising, regenerative braking, and other real-world operating conditions. Manufacturers should be held to provide consumers and researchers with standardized measurements of the electromagnetic environment inside their vehicles. The most important research gap is cumulative exposure. Children do not experience wireless technologies one at a time. A child awakens in a Wi-Fi- home, wears a smartwatch to soccer practice, uses Bluetooth earbuds at the gym (I see this all the time in High Schoolers), carry an iPhone in their back pocket or bra, spend six hours in a wireless school environment, travel in an EV, return to a home containing numerous wireless devices including Alexa, and sleep near a phone or a phone under their pillow. A medically complex child can have additional wireless medical technology as mentioned. Please prioritize: -Longitudinal studies during pregnancy, following children through adolescence. -Pediatric dosimetry that reflects age, body size, individualized physiology, device placement, and real-world use. -Long-term studies of all physically wireless devices. -Comparative exposure studies of medically necessary versus discretionary wireless technologies. -Studies of cumulative RF/EMF exposure across the home, school, transportation, medical, and recreational environments. -Independent characterization of passenger exposures in electric and Waymo-type vehicles. -Public health educational programs including the use of nonessentials, like wi-fi baby monitors. Research examining biological effects below existing federal exposure limits, including mechanistic studies addressing oxidative stress, mitochondrial function, calcium signaling, inflammation, sleep, neurodevelopment, reproductive health, metabolism, and immune function, and effects on the microbiome while clearly distinguishing reproducible findings from preliminary or conflicting evidence. Precaution does not require panic, fear, or neuroses, nor does scientific uncertainty establish harm. But uncertainty should also not be mistaken for proof of long-term safety. Thank you for your serious investigation of this issue.

I, Morgan K, submit this filing as testimony and consideration the the HHS review of radio frequency and electro magnetic frequencies which include wifi routers, smart meters, cellular towers, 5g, 4g, 3g, 2.6g, all smart phones and cellular phones, fiber optics, wifi towers and antennaes. I am extremely concerned for the health of myself, my children, my pets and all humans who are subject to very detrimental and damaging frequencies that have been overtly studied and found to cause extreme disease, cancer and even death. I have been experiencing negative effects from RF since I was 18 years old when I began to notice terrible headaches any time I would use my celllular phone to my head. I soon began to notice that the DECT cordless phone would cause me to have insomnia if I did not unplug them and take the batteries out. Some of my primary concerns are cell towers, antennas and wifi towers within 5 miles of homes and schools. My children and I have suffered from RF exposure that caused headaches and migraines, dizziniess, inabiltiy to focus, learning difficulties and disabilities, insomnia, elevated cortisol levels, extreme heating to the head and more. Findings from many studies including the ones I have attached to this filing show without a down that these inorganic frequencies are causing these symptoms and more. They are also causing infertility, birth defects and long term impact on unborn children. As stated in the paper titled A review of potential health risks of radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure from mobile phones and base stations in children and pregnant women (see attached), "It has been reported that chronic exposure to low-intensity GSM-like radiation (900 MHz) in female Sprague–Dawley rats shows mixed outcomes. There have been no pathological changes in Short-term studies, whereas long-term studies indicate significant reduction in survival (~9%)." So even lower frequencies as low as DECT 900mHz cordless phones pose a huge risk to humans and the environment. My mother has been effected by these dangerous frequencies when she was diagnosed with cancer. The correlation between RF and Cancer has been demonstrated by the studies I have attached to this filing as well as in many others. I strongly urge HHS and the FCC, under the weight and consideration of the scientific evidence, find the current RF exposure limits are deleterious and completely insufficient to public health and the environment. They should be dramatically lowered to reflect the science and the findings of science and people's irrefutable experiences from around the world that were previously dimissed and disregarded by the Commision. Thank you, Morgan K

I am writing to let you know how EMF's, RF Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure have personally impacted me, plus share their impact on several of my friends. I admit that I am addressing them as an entity, as I do not have access to technology that can single out any one risk to life. But I do have access to my own life experience. "Smart" electric meter: Duke Energy installed one on my house without my prior knowledge. Subsequently, I began to experience frequent awakening during the night; the "smart" meter was located at the far end of my home, away from my bedroom. After a convoluted process involving Duke Energy and notarized paperwork from my primary care physician, I was finally able to get it replaced with a manual read meter, resulting in improved sleep. Two friends of mine both experienced major sleep disruption as they live in a condo with "smart" meters just outside their bedrooms. One has now moved out and is experiencing improved energy and health. The other, financially unable to relocate, created his own inside protections to help shield his bedroom; he, too, is experiencing improved health and functioning. Cell towers: the more that go up, the worse I feel. My personal symptoms include awakening suddenly in the middle of the night with a vibrating, quivering, physical sensation in my chest and abdomen of several minutes duration. Please note that three male friends, of varying ages and with whom I compare such experiences, all experienced similar sensations on that same night around that same time. And this has recurred multiple times since. While it does not seem to be related to age or gender, it may have something to do with our more sensitive temperaments (all are empaths, three of us are healers). We've concluded that someone "turned up the juice" at those times. A woman whom I've met told me that she has to sleep in her car on the Blue Ridge Parkway to get a better night's sleep. Cell phones: have you ever witnessed a bright, personable child evolve into a zombi-like young teenager, after she was given a cell phone by her grandparents (against the wishes of her parents)? I have. It's tragic. Just look around. So many people are glued to their devices. Real human interactions are becoming rare. I've been close to being rear-ended while driving and yup, that person was looking at her cell phone. With more and more cell towers being installed, increasing network strength, plus mandatory "smart" meters for water and propane with no opt-outs, neighbors' Ring doorbells, Flock and other surveillance cameras...where do we go to escape for our health and our very lives??? For the sake of all Life and the future of our fragile Earth, I implore you to investigate this and to establish updated, appropriate regulations--not only regarding what these major energetic disruptions are doing to humans, but also to our declining bees and pollinators, birds, various wildlife and soils. Perhaps this is part of the agenda to reduce population; but do you have children and grandchildren and those whom you love? Thank you for your consideration of these matters.

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of a concerned member of the public. The pervasive increase in wireless radiation has eroded my, and numerous friend's wellbeing. Confusion/poor concentration, tinnitus, fatigue, muscle weakness, and insomnia have become issues as no where I can go anymore is safe. My home which is supposed to be my sanctuary but is flooded with fields no matter how much I turn off, unplug, and how many circuit breakers I switch off. I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. 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 HHS 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.

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of a parent and concerned member of the public. I support people affected by wireless radiation and think it is possible that far more people are affected by wireless radiation than we know of right now, and I believe HHS should address this issue. I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. 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 HHS 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.

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of a parent. We live close to areas with lots of cell towers and other radio signals. As more and more increase in the area, I have real concerns about how this will impact a growing child based on some of the data being shown. A real study that is trustworthy is desperately needed. Therefore, I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. 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 HHS 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.

How do we explain any of this to our children and that their future careers will all be dependent on this bioengineered, bioeconomy? I pray one day spoken truth will clarify the meaning of any of this. NASEM 1993 Assessment of the Possible Health Effects of Ground Wave Emergency Network https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK208990/pdf/Bookshelf_NBK208990.pdf 2003 S.189 - 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act Public Law 108-153 https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/189/cosponsors Self assembling Nanotechnology Human Enhancements 2017 A Review on Human Body Communication: Signal Propagation Model, Communication Performance, and Experimental Issues https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2017/5842310 2019 Your Body: The Network You Didn’t Know You Had https://www.voanews.com/a/4858053.html 2020 Turning the Body into a Wire https://spectrum.ieee.org/turning-the-body-into-a-wire Internet of Bodies Purdue University https://engineering.purdue.edu/C-IoB 2020 The body is the network: To safeguard sensitive data, turn flesh and tissue into a secure wireless channel https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9271808?denied= WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS: A NEW PARADIGM OF PERSONAL SMART HEALTH. https://smartcities.ieee.org/images/files/pdf/SCWhitePaper-WirelessBodyAreaNetworks.pdf 2020 On the Safety of Human Body Communication https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10249173 2024 Federal Register “The bidirectional interaction between the virtual and the physical is central to the digital twin.” https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/06/18/2024-13379/networking-and-information-technology-research-and-development-request-for-information-on-digital Warfighter Digital Twin “If the digital twin is considered as a body, digital threads (data stream), is the “blood” of the body.” (p. 10) https://www.modsimworld.org/papers/2022/MODSIM_2022_paper_10.pdf Will we need an app on our smart phones to receive our own bidirectional digital twin data for our EHR? When did we unknowingly consent to all of this? FCC Ingestibles, Wearables and Embeddables https://www.fcc.gov/general/ingestibles-wearables-and-embeddables Body Area Network Privacy: People might consider the WBAN technology as a potential threat to freedom if the applications go beyond "secure" medical usage. Social acceptance would be key to this technology finding a wider application. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_area_network And so many more questions… 2018 NASEM Securing the Vote Protecting American Democracy https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25120/securing-the-vote-protecting-american-democracy 5G-6G-7G COVID (load balancing) Synesthesia Autism FHIR SLI Compliance 21st Century Cures Act Brain Initiative