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 citizen.
Within a month of the introduction of cell phones, around the early 1990's (Clovis, CA), my husband began having unbearable ringing in his ears. He began having hearing issues and eventually wore progressively more potent hearing aids. Today, he now has a cochlear implant. Meanwhile, as cellphones prolifereated, I developed a heart "flutter", which my cardiologist can't find a reason for. However, when I'm at our home at Lake Tahoe where my computer senses at least 7 wifi systems from the densely packed houses nearby, my ears ring intensely and my heart flutter worsens (to the point of making me cough and or feeling like I'm going to pass out. These symptoms reduce significantly when we are at our house down in the Carson Valley in Nevada, where homes are on acreage and much farther apart. I sincerely believe cell phone towers and their attendant radiation, are causing physical ailments in people.
Thank you for providing US citizens with an opportunity to be heard on the issue of EMFs
Lianne Peterson
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 on behalf of Nevada County for Safe Tech (NCST), a community advocacy group of residents in Nevada County, California.
NCST formed in 2025 when our county began updating its ordinance for cell towers and wireless facilities. Hundreds of residents have since commented to our Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors. What we learned is that when residents raise health concerns about wireless facilities, no one in local government has the authority or expertise to answer them.
What we have seen locally:
• A resident near a tower activated in December 2025 reported headaches and insomnia beginning when the tower went live. The county had no way to require independent RF testing, and because the tower was approved under prior rules, no post-installation testing was required.
• County staff acknowledged they lack the expertise to evaluate carrier RF compliance reports. A report can certify compliance without showing exposure levels at nearby homes.
• Carrier predictive models can underestimate real-world exposure because of terrain, antenna orientation and multiple co-located transmitters. Consumer meters cannot measure 5G frequencies, so residents have no practical way to know their exposure.
• Our county treats new small cells as a building-permit matter with no public notice. Residents may first learn of an antenna in front of their home when the crew arrives.
• Elevated exposure is not only a ground-level issue. Arborists and maintenance workers can enter high-exposure zones at height.
Federal law (47 U.S.C. § 332(c)(7)(B)(iv)) bars local governments from regulating wireless facilities on health grounds when they meet FCC limits, and the FCC is proposing to narrow local enforcement further. The FCC is not a health agency. Communities are left with health questions and no health authority responsible for answering them.
We ask HHS to:
1. Develop independent field-measurement protocols that cover all frequencies in use, including 5G and 6G, measure cumulative exposure from multiple sources, and test at ground and upper-story heights, so local health departments can verify exposure.
2. Recommend what RF information should be public for each facility, such as predicted exposure at nearby homes and schools.
3. Create a way for individuals and clinicians to report symptoms they associate with RF exposure, and guide local health departments on responding.
4. Prioritize research on chronic ambient exposure, effects below current limits, and vulnerable groups including children, pregnant women and people living close to facilities.
5. Advise the FCC on exposure limits and on health-protective distances between facilities and homes and schools.
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 [patient, parent, family member, caregiver, healthcare professional, researcher, advocate, concerned member of the public, or other].
Please stop putting up 5 and 6 G that’s is harmful! Wireless radiation has affected me and my body. I live in Tampa, Fl and ever since I have had headaches and fatigue. 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 an EMF DISABLED patient, parent /my daughter is also EMF harmed, I am a healthcare professional-Family Nurse Practitioner of 42 years, and a researcher / author and Anti-EMF advocate, & concerned member of the public.
I had to leave my medical clinic 5 years ago because the landlord put WiFi Routers above and next to my clinic. Then the local electric company EWEB put a SMART Meter on the building. I became light headed, headaches, nausea, my blood pressure spiked and I became unsteady on my feet with fuzzy thinking. I could no longer see patients in my medical practice.
I moved my Nurse Practitioner clinic home and had to let go my 3 staff. This rather wrecked my finances. My home had a safe analog electric meter, and I had thrown out my cell phone and got wired modems and a $3,500 Power Perfect device on my electric system to take out all dirty electricity from the power lines coming into my house.
That worked until the dread Eugene Water and Electric company forced me and everyone else in town to get a digital SMART METER ON THE HOUSE. Five ex-military “Security people” from EWEB appeared and 3 of them were in body armor with a taser on one hip and a pistol on the other and told me they were here to take your meter lady”. Fabulous intimidation, I was 74 years of age were they expecting I would wrestle them to the ground? The day they put the SMART meter on my home I immediately had high pitched buzzing in my head ,chest pain, my blood pressure spiked, headaches and I was unsteady on my feet. I could not stay in the home so I slept in a friend’s shed with no power.
I called EWEB the next day to see if they could give me another type of meter. They sent another armed guard and a bucket truck out and told me I had to keep this meter that I had or they could cut the power at the pole…...So they cut my power on Sept 27, 2024 because I could not live in a house with a Smart meter and be EMF Disabled.
Two years later I am running off a solar generator and had to change out $55,000 in getting all new natural gas appliances for a refrigerator, heating stove, water heater,solar panels.My oven does not work since it is electric and I have been cooking all my meals on a Coleman camp stove for 2 years on a covered deck in all weather. I am now 75. Unfortunately I am still not safe living here due to more EMFs/ cell towers and my neighbor’s homes emitting RF and it was my “Forever home” of 20 years and it looks like I am to be forced out of here.
I have one 30 watt non LED light bulb in the whole home that runs off a solar generator and my computer. I spend my evenings with candles or REI back packing lanterns for light in the home since the power was cut at the pole 2 years ago. I still have high pitched buzzing in my head, fuzzy thinking when it is high with awful fatigue that comes in waves. I can pick up 16 of my neighbor’s WiFi routers, and their SMART meters & a baby monitor on my EMF /RF meter. I have NOT slept through the night in 3 years now since the SMART meter roll out. I NEVER wake up refreshed no matter how many hours I am trying to sleep. I have come to hate nights due to the constant buzzing. My white blood count has dropped due to the EMF exposure and I am working myself up for auto immune problems and it has stirred up my in-remission Epstein Barr from 30 years ago.
I now have all leather grounding shoes, 4 grounding mats to sit on, a grounding mat on my bed that is grounded on my mattress, I have grounding silver thread sheets and a $1,300 SILVER thread Faraday canopy over my bed. I have put aluminum radiant barrier on my bedroom walls/ ceiling and floor and have put 2 layers of aluminum screen over my bedroom windows and the mesh is grounded with a metal rod. All of this blocks some of the EMFs/ RF, but not enough.
On the www.AntennaeSearch.com website my home comes up with 161 large 5G towers and 492 small cell antenna within 3 miles of my home. They have a new 5G 500 foot tower 0.2 miles from my home with 3 telecoms on it, I can see the tower from my back deck. When it was 4G it did not give me symptoms .“They” put in 15 large 400-500 foot towers during Covid when people were not looking/ distracted ,along the railroad track which curves so all 15 of these Damn towers are ¾ of a mile from my home. I am being COOKED and I feel rotten. If I go out into the country away from cell phone towers ALL the buzzing in my head goes away and my cognition totally clears up and I have energy again. The RF/ EMF/ 5G towers & cell phones and wifi routers made me sick. They are an invisible toxin that is permeating my walls, ceiling and windows and my yard, that I no longer enjoy being in since the buzzing in my head is worse outside. At 75 I have to find a new home.
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, advocate and concerned member of the public.
I have followed the implementation of wireless technology and the discussions around that for decades. I'm convinced that wireless radiation can be, and often is, harmful to various life forms. Please STOP expanding wireless networks.
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 concerned member of the public.
Though I am one of the fortunate ones who is not electromagnetic sensitive, I advocted in front of the Loveland, CO, city council on behalf of residents of the "Artspace" building on 5th St. in downtown Loveland, who suffered and are still suffering greatly from the effects of a 5G base station placed on the roof of their building. People in the building got extremely sick and a number of them moved out. A woman right below the tower, developed cancer. Pets died. Neither the city, nor the building owner, refused to do anything about it. Fortunately, the ones who moved out recovered. Since it is a low-income building, many just did or do not have the means to move out and remain there suffering. Wireless radiation, especially 5G, does not align with the natural electromagnetic rate of the human body, therefore is just plain dangerous. I have taken a stand against this technology and gave up my cellphone in 2020. Unfortunately, the world we live in is built on wireless technology to a good extent right now, so we need the support of HHS and the FCC desperately.
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 patient.
Wireless radiation gives me headaches. Too much radiation within a building, such as from many people gathered, all of whom are carrying cell phones, will give me a headache. Going too close to certain cell towers gives me a headache. Sometimes the headache lasts all day. Sometimes the headache is relieved by the practice of grounding, putting my bare feet on the earth or on concrete. If I don't encounter radiation, I don't commonly get any headaches. It is hard for me to go into big cities, as it is hard to avoid cell towers there.
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.
Beginning is Spring of 2014, I started having some major problems with my health. This included low energy and inability to sleep at night, dry eyes or burning eyes for no reason, vertigo on changing positions, dizziness, racing thoughts, forgetfulness, waking up hot and sweaty, but had gone through menopause 10 years previously, depression, IBS and diarrhea, skin pigmentation blotchy face and arms, ih have roleux blood which clumps up when I am over exposed, heart palpitations or crushing pain which I finally had to have a pacemaker installed in 2019 and in that area and 24/7 tinnitus. I passed out on a few occasions, twice at home, once at a bank in which the banker said my eyes rolled. I passed out again on July 10th and ended up in emergency leaving with a heart monitor to wear for a month. I started to see Karen von Merveldt-Guevara, a German MD due to no real cure from my emergency visit. Testing was completed and I was suffering from copper overload, and it was toxicity levels and adrenal fatigue. I visited the dentist due to heavy metal toxicity and removed old fillings due to their amalgam silver and mercury laden fillings leaching into my blood stream. We had just had a Smart Meter installed on our house which also had solar array on the roof. It had an inverter, but it was determined that it needed a filter which was installed on the house on the recommendation of the building biologist who actually conducted an inspection. I was living 3 blocks from stealth cell tower on top of the fire house and the suspicion that radio frequencies from this combination was making me totally disabled. We installed a silver lined protection over the bed while sleeping at night, but the fear of living in this space made us move. We moved out of the state of Arizona due to the inablilty to keep an analog meter on our house. We moved to Oregon where we found a house with the standard analog meter and I was 1.5 miles from the nearest cell tower and did well until, again a utility company demanded that we install another Smart Meter on the home. Again, we chose to move out of this utility company's control and live elsewhere. This has been the pattern now for 12 years. I do OK as long as I am not bombarded with RF frequencies that affect me negatively. I cannot spend all day and all night in high frequencies. I do not work and remain close to my home now so it has also limited my ability to travel and enjoy life.
The Honey Bee says: STOP 5G - 5th Generation Wireless Technology
Headline News
The harmful effects of EMFs on nature are scientifically based and have been under-reported for over a decade. Here are just a few facts most people would like to know.
• Technology is quite literally destroying nature. . . with electromagnetic radiation from power lines and cell towers. . . 5G could increase threat. Newsweek, 2018
• 180 scientists and doctors from 35 countries have signed a recommendation for a 5G moratorium.
• 5G increases body temperature of insects. Pro Natura, 2019
• A $30 million US National Toxicology Program (NTP) study in 2018 found “clear evidence” that cell phone radiation is linked to cancer.
• . . . unprecedented exposure interferes with the natural functioning of humans, animals, and plants.
Dr. Ulrich Warnke: Bees and Mankind: Destroying Nature by ‘Electrosmog’, 2009
• “Birds disappearing mysteriously. . . bees under threat.
. . . increasing evidence EMF pollution such as cell towers,
cell phones, cordless phones and wifi is a factor.”
Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy, 2009 The Birds, the Bees and EMF Pollution
• EMFs can cause cancer.
(Hardell and Carlberg, 2018) (Soffritti, 2016) (Peleg, 2018)
• Electromagnetic Fields A ‘Credible Threat’ To Wildlife Joel M. Moskowitz, Ph.D., Principia Scientific International, 2018
• “Due to electromagnetic smog, honeybees are often unable to
return to their hives (Harst et al., 2006; Favre, 2011; Sharma & Kumar 2010; Sahib, 2011),
the resulting massive loss of workers thenleads to a colony collapse (e.g. Harst et al. 2006; Sharma a nd Kumar 2010), which is why electromagnetic radiation has been suggested as one
potential cause of colony collapse disorder (CCD) (e.g. Warnke 2009; Sahib 2011)”
Journal of Insect Conservation (Lázaro et al, 2016)
• Radiation impacts on wild birds documented nest abandonment, plumage deterioration and death. Lab studies of chick embryos documented heart attacks and death. (Al Manville PhD USFWS, 2016)
• EMFs evoke aversive behavior,
developmental anomalies and mortality in studied animal groups.
(Ministry of Environment & Forests Report 2011 P6)