Court Orders FCC to Re-Think Wireless Safety Risks; Shouldn’t California Governor Newsom Do The Same?

Court Orders FCC to Re-Think Wireless Safety Risks; Shouldn’t California Governor Newsom Do The Same?

When the Federal Communications Commission reaffirmed 25-year-old human health exposure guidelines for wireless radiofrequency (RF) radiation, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals didn’t buy it. In a stinging rebuke, an August Court held that the FCC demonstrated “a complete failure to respond to comments” submitted by Environmental Health Trust (EHT) and numerous other experts demonstrating harm from current levels of microwave radiation from wireless devices and infrastructure, especially for children and the environment.

Despite this stunning reprimand of the FCC for failing to update its standards, California’s harried legislators have just passed bills effectively turning every streetlamp into a 5G antenna site and banning local controls over where and when these two-way microwave radiating devices are deployed. The buck stops on the desk of newly-affirmed Governor Newsom who can and must veto these questionable statutes. Rather than overriding local control and bringing wireless radiation closer to humans than ever before, the Governor can insist, as has the reviewing Court, that…