{"id":166074,"date":"2020-08-03T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=166074"},"modified":"2020-08-01T06:19:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T05:19:25","slug":"brief-against-fcc-on-5g-and-wireless-harms-submitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/08\/brief-against-fcc-on-5g-and-wireless-harms-submitted\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief against FCC on 5G and Wireless Harms: Submitted!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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31 Jul 2020 – <\/em>What we put in our bodies and our children\u2019s developing bodies is the most important and most personal choice we make as human beings. But when it comes to damaging levels of radiation, that right to choose has been stolen from us. The Children\u2019s Health Defense (CHD) mission to protect children from toxic exposure reached a major milestone on Wednesday, July, 29 with the filing of the principal brief<\/a> in our case against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Our case also seeks justice for parents of kids who have suffered health impacts from wireless radiation.<\/p>\n

The case challenges the agency\u2019s refusal to review<\/a> its 25-year-old obsolete wireless \u201chealth guidelines\u201d and adopt scientific, biologically based radio frequency emissions rules that adequately protect public health. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., CHD\u2019s chairman and chief legal counsel, said,<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are committed to making our government accountable, and giving a voice to injured children, their parents and doctors, and the scientists who have spoken out for justice on this issue.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Read our full press release<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The FCC guidelines ignore human biology and are based on an obsolete, false and disproven scientific assumption that wireless radiation is not harmful unless causing thermal change in tissue. But CHD\u2019s brief proves that scientific and human evidence of harm from wireless and 5G well below thermal levels was presented to the FCC, but\u00a0 the agency officially closed the docket on the issue last year and ignored all submitted reports. Therefore, CHD contends the FCC\u2019s decision not to review the \u201chealth guidelines\u201d is capricious, arbitrary, not evidence-based and an abuse of discretion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important evidence is the human evidence,\u201d<\/em> says Dafna Tachover, director of 5G and Wireless Harms Project at Children\u2019s Health Defense. \u201cThose who have been injured and died because of the FCC\u2019s abuse of power, have been invisible to the FCC like the wireless radiation that harms them. The purpose of our case is to make this invisible problem visible.\u201d<\/em> Read Dafna Tachover\u2019s Affidavit on behalf of the CHD<\/a><\/p>\n

CHD\u2019s principal brief cites thousands of studies and medical reports, including those conducted by U.S. government agencies, and references hundreds of testimonials by people who have been injured. The brief shows clear evidence of harm<\/a> from wireless radiation from exposure to wireless radiation sources such as cell phones, Wi-Fi and cell towers at levels well below current FCC emission limits. It also outlines scientifically the established mechanisms of harm from wireless radiation.<\/p>\n

The petitioners in the case include parents of children injured, including a mother whose son died from a brain tumor from cell phones and cell tower exposure, Virginia Farver, who stated, \u201cIf the FCC does its job now perhaps other mothers will not experience the pain and suffering I face every day. But the public is being told there is no evidence of harm, that these devices are safe.\u201d When a Petitioner in this case, Michele Hertz, developed Microwave Sickness and contacted the FCC to seek help, the man she spoke to responded, \u201cWe don\u2019t deal with humans, only frequencies.\u201d and hung up.<\/p>\n

Petitioners in this case also include physicians who see the epidemic of sickness in their clinics daily, like Dr. David Carpenter, a renowned professor, scientist and public health expert, who reports, \u00a0\u201cThe scientific consensus is that the FCC guidelines have no validity and are causing widespread illness and death,\u201d Prof. David Carpenter is the director of the Institute for Health and Environment at the University of Albany and co-editor of the BioInitiative Report<\/a>, the most extensive review of the science on wireless health impacts written by 29 of the world\u2019s leading scientists.<\/p>\n

The outdated and\u00a0 false guidelines have enabled the uncontrolled proliferation of wireless technology, including 5G. The fast-tracked deployment of 5G will exponentially increase the forced exposure to this proven harmful radiation with 800,000 more cell towers, 50 billion devices that will be wirelessly interconnected and 1,000,000 on the ground antennas to communicate with 50,000 satellites<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In its decision not to review the guidelines, the FCC also astoundingly dismissed the results of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration\u2019s funded National Toxicology Program<\/a> study, a $30 million, 10-year study that was supposed to give the American people the final answer as to whether or not wireless is harmful. This study, the largest of its kind, found \u201cclear evidence<\/a>\u201d of cancer and DNA damage<\/a>. The results should have put to rest the notion that non-ionizing radiation cannot break DNA<\/a>. The World Health Organization already classified<\/a> wireless radiation as a \u201cpossible\u201d (2B) carcinogen in 2011. The National Toxicology Program study is the \u201cmissing link\u201d needed to classify it as a human carcinogen. Courts, including Italy\u2019s Supreme Court<\/a>, already determined that cell phones cause brain tumors.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.\u2019s reputation as a resolute defender of the environment stems from a litany of successful legal actions. Mr. Kennedy is the Chairman of Children\u2019s Health Defense and was named one of <\/em>Time Magazine\u2019s \u201cHeroes for the Planet\u201d for his success to restore the Hudson River. The group\u2019s achievement helped spawn 300 Waterkeeper organizations across the globe. He serves as President of Waterkeeper Alliance and of counsel to Morgan & Morgan, a nationwide personal injury practice. He was previously Chief Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper, Senior Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and a Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney at Pace University School of Law. Earlier in his career he served as Assistant District Attorney in New York City.<\/em> Mr. Kennedy is a graduate of Harvard University. He studied at the London School of Economics and received his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School.<\/em><\/p>\n

Featured in: <\/em>The law journal Law360<\/a><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 childrenshealthdefense.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

31 Jul 2020 – What we put in our bodies and our children\u2019s is the most important and personal choice we make. But when it comes to damaging levels of radiation, that right to choose has been stolen from us. The case challenges the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s refusal to review its 25-year-old obsolete wireless \u201chealth guidelines\u201d and adopt scientific, biologically based radio frequency emissions rules that adequately protect public health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":122593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1173,1082,1057,269,1446,401,710,1102,1958,1084,1929,1081,304,1447,461,1112],"class_list":["post-166074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-focus","tag-5g-wireless","tag-cellphones","tag-child-protection","tag-communication","tag-electromagnetic-radiation","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-public-health","tag-public-service","tag-radiation","tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr","tag-satellites","tag-science","tag-science-and-medicine","tag-technology","tag-telecommunication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}