Congressional Bills That Will Increase Wireless Radiation

The 119th Congress (2025-2026) began on January 3, 2025
Stay tuned to this page for updates as bills are introduced in the current Congress.

Recap of the 118th Congress 

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EHT Submissions

• Submission 2/19/25 to Senate Commerce Committee regarding spectrum policy and HR 651 [PDF link]

Regulatory Gaps: Lack of Federal Oversight

• No agency with health or environmental expertise is funded to consider radiofrequency (RF) effects from environmental emitters (e.g., cell towers, small cells, 5G/4G wireless network antennas).
• No oversight, monitoring, or compliance program exists.
• No safety regulations exist to protect wildlife, trees or plants, despite evidence of serious harm, with pollinators being uniquely vulnerable.

Outdated FCC Wireless RF Exposure Regulations

• FCC RF exposure limits remain unchanged since 1996.
• No federal agency has conducted a comprehensive review of the current body of science on the health and environmental impacts of wireless RF radiation.
• Adverse biological effects have been found at levels well below FCC human exposure limits.

“We find the [FCC’s radiofrequency] order arbitrary and capricious in its complete failure to respond to comments concerning environmental harm caused by RF radiation.”

 — US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, 2021 Decision Environmental Health Trust et al. v. FCC

The FCC has not complied with the DC Circuit Court order to explain how U.S. RF limits address:

• impacts on children
• non-cancer effects of long-term exposure
• the ubiquity of wireless technology since 1996
• impacts on the  environment (pollinators, plants and animals)

An Unsupported Basis for Bills Fast-Tracking Wireless:

• Pending bills are being promoted under the banners of “streamlining”, “removing barriers to entry”, and “closing the digital divide.”
• In fact, these bills ignore constitutional protections, conflict with existing federal law, remove states’ rights, and would perpetuate the digital divide.

Increasing RF levels across the country will put people, wildlife, and the natural environment at serious risk of harm. Federal accountability and environmental safeguards are needed before allowing unfettered wireless proliferation.