1. Last month, the Children's Health Defense, headed by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., brought legal action against the FCC, which is responsible for regulating the safety of wireless technology. The reason for the action is that the agency has refused to update its 25 -year-old guidelines, written in 1996, that protects only against thermal damage from wireless radiation. They do not address the issue of non-thermal biological damage, which is where the greatest concern is today. The FCC's obsolete guidelines have enabled the proliferation of new, high-frequency 5G radiation without any knowledge of its potential damage to humans. -GEG

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s Children's Health Defense Submitted Historic Case Against U.S. Government for Wireless Harms

CHD Chairman, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., will lead the legal team with seasoned telecommunications and administrative law attorney Scott McCollough.

Washington, DC—Children's Health Defense (CHD) is leading a historic legal action against the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) for its refusal to review their 25 year old guidelines, and to promulgate scientific, human evidence-based radio frequency emissions ("RF") rules that adequately protect public health from wireless technology radiation. The Petition contends the agency's actions are capricious and not evidence-based. The Petition was filed on 2/2/2020 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

The Petitioners include parents of children injured by wireless devices, a mother whose son died from a brain tumor from cell tower exposure, physicians who see the epidemic of sickness in their clinics and Professor David Carpenter, a renowned scientist.

"This action represents the first time in 25 years that we finally can expose the FCC fecklessness in court, and give those who have been injured by the FCC's disregard for human health a voice," says Dafna Tachover, CHD's Director of Stop 5G & Wireless Harms.

In 1996, the FCC, responsible for regulating the safety of wireless technology, adopted guidelines which only protect consumers from thermal levels of wireless harm, ignoring substantial evidence of profound harms from non-thermal levels. The FCC hasn't reviewed its guidelines since, despite clear scientific evidence and growing rates of RF related sickness.

In 2012, the General Accountability Office published a report recommending that the FCC re-assess its guidelines. As a result, in 2013, the FCC opened docket 13-84 asking for public comment. Despite overwhelming evidence in support of new rules submitted by hundreds of individuals and scientists, the FCC did nothing. On December 4, 2019, the FCC closed the docket and affirmed the adequacy of its guidelines without proper assessment. CHD's action challenges that FCC decision.