I wish the issue were vaccines. The Plandemic’s tyranny sealed pHARMa’s fate and fewer Americans will face the Hobson Choice (one that really isn’t a choice at all) between risking chronic disease (which repeated studies have shown stem from overvaccination) or losing access to education (via school mandates) or work (as hospital and nursing home professionals must suffer). With Florida health secretary Lapado leading the way along with RFK at HHS, vaccine mandates have lost support.
But not so with wireless radiation. The talk in today’s Energy and Commerce Committee markup was all about unfunded mandates for local officials to speed up wireless tower permits, and settling for inferior wireless service instead of the reliable wireline promised in Biden’s BEAD broadband infrastructure promise.
Scroll down for the email to send and call to make, to prevent passage on the House floor anytime of HR 2289, which passed today out of the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Some highlights from today’s vote:
On lazy local permit considerations, Mr. Ruiz (D-CA) opposed HR 2289’s dispensing with now-required historical reviews - for ignoring concerns of American’s native tribes, putting “sacred land at risk”.
Sections 101 and 102 of the bill preempt zoning for antenna additions onto “any structure”. The bill incorporates several other bills, including one by Joyce (R-PA) allowing any infrastructure “upgrade” that doesn’t categorically exclude wireless; and another by Fry (R-SC) whose replacement of insecure, Chinese equipment with secure upgrades also does not rule out wireless.
Communication Subcommittee Chair Hudson (R-NC) said he wants to “protect our citizens”, obviously oblivious to section 704 of the Telecom law which bars lawsuits against Telecom for harms to citizens. He also said “all we want to do is get broadband into the ground”, again oblivious to Telecom’s goal to replace reliable fiber with unreliable wireless.
When Hudson defended the “shot clock” just to get a response on tower permit applications, Rep. McClellan (D-VA) shot back that rushing local decisionmakers make an “unfunded mandate”, when manpower and available poles were lacking
Ms. Barragan (D-CA) criticized the bills’ “deemed granted” threat, where failure to deny after expiration of the shot click automatically approved the permit application. She gave examples of county officials in both rural and suburban areas, where permit reviews were often tedious - involving avoiding broadband infrastructure collision with nearby, underground water and sewer lines - the rupture of which could cause catastrophic damage. This bill would place roadway monitoring under the mercy of private, infrastructure owners. America cannot ignore local expertise - we must not gamble with public safety, at the mercy of private interests. She also ridiculed Mr. Griffith’s (R-VA) defense of the shot clock, saying his suggestion for locals to just deny to avoid shot clock violations, made an expensive, paperwork nightmare involving re-filing permits.
Mr. Carter (D-LA) worried Trump’s reworking of BEAD infrastructure away from reliable wireline to low-cost wireless or satellite would leave his poor constituents with second tier broadband, and offered an amendment to require NTIA certification of compliance with BEAD’s goal of scalability. Mr. Hudson opposed for threatening the goal of “tech neutrality”, that is allowing wireless companies to get as much taxpayer subsidies as wireline. Ms. Matsui (D-CA) defended BEAD’s goal for broadband that was fast, dependable and scalable, and that rebidding will under-deliver service, costing taxpayers more in the long run. Ms. McClellan clarified that satellite and fixed wireless do NOT meet the fast upload/download goal of BEAD, and that her constituents want fiber - she said even Elon uses fiber for his base stations. What none of these politicians mentioned is that any short term savings to taxpayer from using wireless for remote, rural households is that such savings disappear after the initial investment. In the long run, then, wireless is not cheaper than wireline. After defeat of this amendment, the committee passed HR 2289. Next stop is the House floor, where we need only a handful of Republicans to defeat preemption.
Despite the near-weekly lobbying by the Natl Call for Safe Technology, staffers aren’t listening or feel no pressure to cajole their bosses to care about either property owners who don’t want a cell tower outside their window that will crush their home value, or about the increasing percentage of Americans injured by wireless radiation that cannot afford to have any more towers encroaching on where they live, work, study or play.
Scroll down for the email to send and call to make, to prevent passage on the House floor anytime of HR 2289, which passed today out of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. That is, if you want to retain the ability to cooperate with your local govt to zone wireless radiation-emitting towers safely far from your neighborhoods or where we work, play or study.
image credit to RF Safe
Without passage of H.R. 2289, it’s not like there doesn’t exist another idea to bring broadband to the masses. And it didn’t even require BEAD taxpayer money. As the Irregulators Lawsuit exposed, every American user of a landline over the past several decades has paid a surcharge to pay for a promised, wireline connection. Telecom diverted this revenue to its wireless schemes, and DC’s Appeals court in 2020 greenlighted state Attorneys General and regulators to audit what happened to these promised surcharges. Fullfillment of this promise would take care of homes, schools & businesses.
But what about Americans on the go, that is, mobile internet via our smartphones? Already our country is covered by a network of tall, Fourth Generation (4G) towers whose long-distance beams adequately give almost everyone several “bars” on their phone. Coupled with fulfillment of the above promise to connect every home with fiber or cable, the need for Fifth Generation (5G) small cell towers - whose beams extend only as far as a few hundred feet - won’t be needed. And this makes a broadband plan that both saves taxpayers money and mitigates health expenses from wireless radiation injury.
But if HR 2289 is passed and signed into law by Trump, property owners will lose any ability to cooperate with local councils to zone towers safely far from homes, nearby parks or their children’s school. We’re talking 3,000 feet setback ordinances from cities like Shelburne, Massachusetts, which keeps cell towers 1,000 feet from homes, and prohibits new wireless antennas in residential zones.
Why are local zoning setbacks so critical? Because 1/3 of us already are sensitive to radio frequency microwave radiation, 5% seriously so. Wireless radiation has been found carcinognic by the National Toxicology Program and the World Health Organization, as well as by whistleblowers from industry itself. If within FCC’s wireless radiation exposure limits, Telecom can’t be sued when its towers injure humans - but these limits were remanded by DC’s Federal Appeals Court in 2021 for “capriciously” ignoring the more than 10,000 pages of submitted scientific evidence of harm WITHIN FCC’s limits. And it’s not just via HR 2289 that Americans will suffer via wireless radiation.
The House also has already passed 4 bills that densify the radiation hitting Americans:
one (HR 1618) having FCC promote satellite connectivity on farms with wireless equipment already blamed by one court for culling 20% of a farmer’s cows,
another studying (HR 1709) the insecurity of wireless except for the most insecure node of the network, 5G,
HR 1455, creating a wireless research slush fund at Commerce’s Natl Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), and
HR 471, promoting wireless technology to control wildfires that in many cases were caused by wireless equipment.
And other laws have passed recently that will aggrevate the growing number of injured Ameicans, including:
Spectrum auctions, authorized in both last Congress’ Defense Law and this Congress’ Big Beautiful Bill. Such auctions result in Telecom exploitation of a preempting law section called 6409, to load existing towers with an unlimited number of additional antennas; and
The Parks law (HR 6492), whose passage in the previous Congress included Sections 141-3 that will saturate our national parks and wild forests with antenna.
We have to stop further deployments, by defeating the bills passed today in committee. How?
Follow the instructions at the alert of my lobbying client, National Health Federation. Or do the following:
Find your U.S. Representative and both Senators. At their “contact” section copy and paste this:
“Oppose please HR 2289, preempting property owners’ ability to cooperate with their local governments to properly zone wireless radiation-emitting cell towers safely far from our bedrooms, classrooms, parks and offices. Families are protesting cell tower deployments nationwide,and are learning to emulate localities with strong zoning against dangerous antennas. Having passed November 18th, 2025 in the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, and Dec 3rd out of the full committee vote, House consideration now can happen any moment. The opposition by the National Health Federation - the world’s oldest health freedom org - is joined by the organizations representing local officials who know best the needs of their neighbors.
“Instead of ignoring the informed consent of property owners, please:
contact Rep. Smith’s (NJ) office to promise original cosponsorship if he reintroduces HR 8082 (from the previous, 118th, Congress), restoring local discretion on where safely to zone wireless radiation-emitting cell towers;
amend all Telecom bills with a requirement that the Federal Communications Commission stop ignoring the 2021 DC Circuit remand of its claim of adequacy of its outdated wireless radiation exposure limits - a claim which “capriciously” ignored the more than 10,000 pages of scientific evidence of biological harm to humans and the environment,
While considering FCC malpractice, oppose their current proposal to do at their agency what Congress is seeking via HR 2289 - that is, to gut local zoning that makes the only barrier to forced Telecom deployment of antenna too close to our bedrooms & childrens classrooms,
introduce a bill to overturn Telecom law section 704, which bars industry liability for harm to the environment (which the courts have interpreted to include human health effects) and
Kill in the Senate four other telecom wishlist bills that have passed the House, including:
one (HR 1618) having FCC promote satellite connectivity on farms with wireless equipment already blamed by one court for culling 20% of a farmer’s cows,
another studying (HR 1709) the insecurity of wireless except for the most insecure node of the network, 5G,
HR 1455, creating a wireless research slush fund at Commerce’s Natl Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), and
HR 471, promoting wireless technology to control wildfires that in many cases were caused by wireless equipment.
“Telecom’s refusal to wire every American’s home and not site cell towers in a responsible fashion has made rural and urban residents desperate enough to gullibly trust industry talking points on “tech neutrality” - promoting the false idea that it shouldn’t matter to an America whether their connection is from wireless or wired. “Neutrality” is a cynical phrase, since wireless is slower, less reliable, less safe, less secure and more expensive after the initial investment. Towers using low and medium band frequencies, zoned by local governments, combined with a hardwire connection to every home - is the responsible way to bridge the broadband digital divide. Do NOT preempt decisions which sacrifice human health for industry profits and government control.”
Copy ALL of the above into your politician’s “contact” website section and send!
Then call the Capitol Hill operator at 202-225-3121, ask for your U.S. Rep., and tell whomever answers (or leave a message) to “oppose HR 2289, preempting local decisionmaking on where safely to locate wireless radiation-emitting cell towers; allow local officials to zone antennas safety far from our bedrooms and children’s classrooms. Respect please the informed consent of property owners”.
While on the phone if you could get the name and email of the “telecom” staffer, email that person a request to “zoom next week to discuss bills to bridge the broadband digital divide”. Forward any response to NHF’s lobbyist, at Charles.Frohman@theNHF.com. If ignored send another email or call. Once the meeting is scheduled I’ll do all the talking, don’t worry!
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