Environmental effects

I had a big, beautiful life before I started getting sick. I started getting all the random symptoms associated with EMFs in 2020 with the release of 5g. I didn’t know the cause of my symptoms until I got Covid in August of 2021. It was during my 3 weeks of being sick that I suddenly couldn’t hold my phone without feeling the energy it was radiating. It made feel like I was being punched in the gut followed by a laundry list of symptoms. Apparently, Covid threw me over the edge and all the symptoms I was already dealing with became 100 times louder. This started a chain reaction where I stopped being able to handle any EMFs. I can now feel and react to all cell phones, WIFI, bluetooth, wearables, general electricity, and the radiation coming off of people and things. I get every commonly listed symptom of EMF/radiation exposure and then some. I have spent endless hours researching and doing everything possible to improve my situation and ameliorate my symptoms. I have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to do things to safeguard my home, buying devices that were supposed to help, and endless protocols to help detox my body/calm my nervous system/etc.. All to no avail. I have been unable to leave my home for over 5 years (much longer if you include the Covid lockdown time from which I have never been released). Because I get sick from the radiation I feel coming off of people, I have to stay isolated. I have been incarcerated and in solitary confinement without ever committing a crime. I have been completely disabled and lost my ability to work, but disability coverage supposedly isn’t an option as this isn’t a covered disease/illness. I have lost almost all of my friends and family since I can’t participate in the relationships. Since most of them don’t understand or believe that their beloved technology is harmful, it has caused a rift in my relationships. If I was sick with cancer, people would be rallying around me with offers of help and support. This is not the case with electrosensitivity. Most want to be in denial that it’s an issue and it’s easier to just call me crazy than it is to own that these technologies are harmful and this can be a real result of their use. Somehow, it’s easier for people to believe that I wanted to give up my big, beautiful life in trade for isolation and suffering than it is to believe that our government would allow us to all be subjected to harmful frequencies. It is criminal that I should have to suffer to such a degree because of everybody’s addiction to these dangerous technologies. These non-native frequencies should have never been released onto the population. I have always been the canary type, which, in the end, is probably a gift as I am able to protect myself as best I can from these frequencies/radiation when the rest of the world is ignorant to their destruction. A few final notes: before I got sick, I used to notice that my dogs would move to the far side of the room every time I would pick up my phone. At the time, I realized they were reacting to my phone, but I didn’t have the conscious awareness or understanding of what it was doing to them or how bad it actually feels to be sensitive to these devices. I feel horrible now that I am having this experience that I subjected them to it. I can also tell the difference between houses that use hardwired internet and those that use 5g or satellite technologies. The ones that use these newer wireless technologies put off so much radiation that the entire neighborhood becomes loaded with it and I can’t go near it. I used to be able to walk my dog on different streets near me, but as people have changed their internet providers to these technologies, I have had to stop taking my dog any farther than just a few house in one direction before I have to retreat to my home.
 And finally, the release of 5g has drastically increased the amount of constant harmful radiation people are being subjected to 24/7. Because I have the uncommon ability/curse to feel radiation, rather than just the frequencies. I have experienced a progression in the last several years of accumulated radiation on people and objects. The change in the amount of radiation has been drastic from when I first got sick to now. It is scary to viscerally experience what has happened to our world with the release of these microwave technologies. They are lightyears more harmful than the previous generations and they have polluted our world more than anybody can imagine. 
 I hope this information is helpful and actually contributes to changes in policy as my life has been 100% destroyed by Big Tech and the US Government’s lack of response in protecting its citizens.

Dear DHHS, I personally believe EMFs, RF, Wireless Radiation Exposure, and plain old electricity, contribute to health issues in humans, pets, and wildlife. I have no idea what the answer is and how the future will be. Data Centers are horrible. Thank you, Ray Cage

Wireless radiation is a toxic exposure that hasn't been properly studied to truly understand its harmful impacts on children, wildlife, and insects, including bees and other pollinators. This is because many so-called "studies" have been funded by Big Tech, which puts profits over both people and the natural world. Many children and adults are experiencing adverse health effects daily, reducing their quality of life and leading to illness. Please also consider widespread harm to fruits and vegetables from a declining pollinator population. I support people affected by wireless radiation, especially those who may not realize the root cause of their illnesses. I believe HHS should address this issue for the health of all Americans. 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, families, healthcare providers, researchers, and scientists with an opportunity to finally be heard on this critical public health issue.

The Federal government has abdicated its role in protecting the public from sources of potentially harmful non-ionizing radiation emanating from cell towers, routers, microwave facilities, satellites, and connected devices. The FCC standards for exposure are really quite a joke, not having been updated since 1996. Yet, even if those standards were adequate at the time, which is highly questionable, the amount of radiation from the above sources has exploded, especially since 2010, and includes parts of the electromagnetic frequency spectrum which were not in common use at the time. It is a clear dereliction of duty to roll out features like 5G, Starlink, and Bluetooth without first PROVING that this radiation is harmless. The burden of proof should be on the companies and the regulators, not citizens. The FCC should be in high gear to correct the deficiencies in its own studies, its professed ignorance of studies which show harmful effects, and revoke any and all licenses that can't meet the bar of proven safety without further delay and obfuscation. The HHS has been absolutely ineffective and disinterested in protecting humans, animals, and insects from RF radiation. There can be no excuses. The only response that is worth listening to from HHS is a moratorium on any further deployment of any source of RF emissions, and notice to the industry that its continued license to operate will be provisional for 12 months pending proof based on controlled studies that RF emissions are harmless.

LED headlights are TOO BRIGHT & make it more difficult to drive into oncoming traffic as well as blinding you in the rear view mirror at night. The Food and Drug Administration must comply with 21 U.S.C. 360ii to test and evaluate LED headlights for biological safety. The brighter lights also impact migrating bird species at night.

There is a lot of literature/articles/studies to support 'No704'. Here is just one - Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, codified as Communications Act at 47 U.S.C. § 332(c)(7)(B)(iv), states: “No State or local government or instrumentality thereof may regulate the placement, construction, and modification of personal wireless service facilities on the basis of the environmental effects of radio frequency emissions to the extent that such facilities comply with the Commission’s regulations concerning such emissions.” Some courts have interpreted “environmental effects” to include human health effects. This effectively strips local authorities of the ability to oppose cell tower permits based on health and environmental effects, as long as the emissions fall within the FCC’s limits. This is unconstitutional because it deprives states and local governments of their traditional police powers designed to protect the health and welfare of their citizens but does not provide a federal remedy or other meaningful oversight. Additionally, several court decisions hold that local jurisdictions cannot regulate other forms of wireless technologies (WiFi routers, cell phones, etc.) because the FCC has sole authority to regulate the safety of these devices. As long as RF emissions fall within the FFC’s limits, people cannot sue the device manufacturer for their RF injuries. This deprives people of their Constitutional rights, e.g. informed consent, property rights, due process, right to a jury trial, and right to life and liberty. This legal framework must be dismantled because: RF radiation below FCC limits has been shown to harm children’s health and the environment. Children harmed by RF radiation exposure are left without remedies or compensation. FCC guidelines are outdated, do not take children into account, and fail to consider current scientific evidence. Excessive FCC authority overrides local control and judicial oversight.

My family is desperate to make sure we do not live near 5G towers. We purchased a home in 2021 and moved from out of state . We started getting headaches and a general feeling of not well. We learned we had two local towers in front and behind us. We sold and move to the country nine months later with no towers in sight. The unwell issues stopped. If we had stayed who knows the long term affects this would have caused us. It would probably be news worthy 20 years from now after people and the environment all show the damage! We need our elected officials to stop this now. Where’s our EPA with this issue and the Weather Modification in our Skies showering who knows what metals and chemicals upon us and our environment! Our bees are disappearing… This is critical!

I'm writing to share how wireless radiation has affected my health and to raise a concern I don't think current policy accounts for: the layering of exposure inside and around our homes and office buildings. For years I lived with migraines, tinnitus, poor sleep, slow recovery, and a nervous system that struggles to settle. These aren't abstract complaints; they shape my life. When I began measuring the radio frequency levels in my home and reducing them, by hardwiring our network, scheduling the router off at night, and tracking down hidden sources, my body responded. The quality of my sleep has improved, although I still have day to day exposure and migraines have gotten worse, and the ringing in my ears hasn't stopped. What's most concerning is how pervasive the exposure is getting. A decade ago, a home might have had one wireless router. Today, radios are built into refrigerators, washers, thermostats, smoke detectors, televisions, sound systems, garage door openers, lighting controls, doorbells, and security systems, alongside routers, modems, and mesh repeaters. Many are boxed into walls and cabinets where homeowners can't see them, and many can't be turned off without disabling the appliance itself. People and pets absorb these signals around the clock, including while we sleep, when the body is meant to repair. Even after we deployed mitigation strategies, the highest reading in our house was in the hallway outside our bedroom, and it traced back to an alarm communicator mounted inside a closet wall. We didn't choose that exposure; we didn't even know it was there.The layers don't stop at our walls. Outside, 5G small cells now sit on streetlights and utility poles steps from bedroom windows, in addition to existing cell towers. Smart meters on each home relay signals to one another in a mesh network, so an entire neighborhood transmits as one connected system. License plate cameras at intersections and community entrances send their data over cellular connections, and satellite networks now beam service down from above. I can turn off my own router at night; I can't turn off my neighbor's smart meter, the small cell on the corner, or the camera at the end of my street. The public never consented to any of this and an informed public would surely not consent. Many of these systems also track where we go; geofencing lets companies and agencies draw a virtual boundary and collect data from every phone that crosses it. We weren't asked about the exposure or the tracking. Federal exposure limits were set in 1996 and evaluate single devices, not the cumulative load of dozens operating at once. In 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found the FCC had failed to explain why those limits still protect people from harms unrelated to cancer, including effects on children and long-term exposure. The U.S. National Toxicology Program and Italy's Ramazzini Institute both found tumors in rats exposed to cell phone and cell tower radiation, and a Danish birth cohort study linked prenatal and childhood phone exposure to behavioral difficulties. Over the same decades that wireless exposure has multiplied, we've seen rising rates of autism, autoimmune disease, and chronic illness, and some researchers have raised questions about RF exposure and mold growth indoors. I'm not suggesting wireless radiation is the single cause of any of these; I'm asking that it be studied seriously rather than ruled out. Wireless radiation also doesn't reach us alone. Every day we're exposed to more synthetic building materials that off-gas, plastics in our clothing, children's toys, and household products, and chemicals permitted in our food and skincare. Each of these is approved on its own, and RF limits are set one device at a time, while our bodies take in all of it together. Little research has looked at how RF exposure interacts with this growing chemical load; until it does, I don't see how anyone can call the combination safe. I respectfully ask that you: 1. Update exposure limits to account for cumulative, long-term exposure from multiple sources, inside and outside the home, as the 2021 court ruling requires. 2. Require public notice and local input before new towers, small cells, smart meter networks, or surveillance cameras go up in residential neighborhoods, with a no-cost opt-out for smart meters. 3. Require that appliances and home systems with wireless radios offer a wired option or a simple way to disable the radio without losing core function. 4. Require clear labeling of wireless modules on appliances and building systems so families can make informed choices. 5. Fund independent research on chronic exposure and how it interacts with everyday chemical exposures, with attention to children, sleep, and the nervous system. Thank you for considering the people living with these exposures every day. Christy Wallace

My wife has Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, which includes potentially extreme reactions to “normal” or “minimal” exposure to radio frequency radiation from a variety of technological sources. She has an ADA accommodation to work full time from home in order to minimize exposure, which has resulted in symptoms such as tachycardia and blacking out. I am also very concerned with the negative impact on insects, wildlife and trees, as has been documented by Arthur Firstenberg.

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 an active citizen in her eighties who lives alone and has recently recognized and is attempting to protect herself from EMF exposure harms, and who wishes to help spread the word about our societies need to protect citizens especially children from this growing toxin, I have lived with a modern wifi unit (Sonic) in my home for five years, and with an earlier generation of wifi (AT&T) for many years before that. In March 2026 after my yearly blood test, my nutritionist said that the pattern of change in my HbA1c test indicated likelihood of high EMF exposure. For the past 10 years since I've been her client the results have stayed between 5.2 and 5.4. Abruptly this past year it moved up to 5.7, the first number in the pre-diabetic category. As I said to her, I have not significantly changed my diet (no grains or refined sugar, lots of low starch veggies, some berries and citrus, grass-fed and finished meat, pastured eggs, fish). She recommended hard-wiring my computer and getting rid of wi-fi, which I have done. (I do not own a cell phone, smart or otherwise.) It's a distinct relief to not be bathing in wi-fi any more. I've long had tinnitus, which while not vanishing is much reduced, and I sleep better. I do think I may also be impacted by involuntary sources of EMF, namely cell towers and antennas. My nutritionist did a search and found about 2300 antennas and 1900 towers within a 3 mile radius of my house. I do have an EMF meter, and though the extremely high counts in my home are gone (they were in the millions), it still reads higher than 10 in my bedroom. So I am thinking of getting a bed canopy. I do look forward to the results of my next A1c test, hoping to see the numbers lower. I am very concerned about the effects of EMF on our human body health as well as impacts on animals, birds and insects, especially bees. The FCC has only measured the thermal impacts of RF, and that no more recently than 1996. For heaven's sake, there has been no attempt by the FCC to keep up with health impacts of cell phones and RF/EMF development since the pre-flip phone era! This seems a deliberate avoidance of the probable biological impacts on our cells and organs. We are after all electromagnetic beings. Much research has been done on this. Please look up Paul Heroux' work, published February 2026, on EMF and the development of diabetes. I strongly 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.