Read and respond to the public notices and request for comment from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Health and Human Services (HHS).   They are now each collecting input from the public on the health impacts of wireless radiation.

The HHS comment docket is open for public comment until October 21, 2026; the FCC is open for comment until October 22, 2026. You can follow this link for information on how to add your comments to the FCC docket and the HHS docket. 

FCC’s duty to protect

The FCC has the responsibility to regulate the safety of wireless technology, even though it is not a health agency. It looks to agencies like the FDA for advice. The FCC is responsible for the safety rules for technology, even though it admits that health is not its area.

The FCC has no actual safety standards for health when it comes to wireless radiation, despite the enormous increase in wireless technology in our homes and the increase in wireless radiation coming from ever more cell towers and antennas. The FCC only has heat guidelines created in 1996, not health standards. 

1996 Heat Guidelines

In adopting its 1996 human exposure guidelines for radio wave and microwave radiation, the FCC only concerned itself with the thermal (heating) effects that this radiation can produce and completely ignored “non-thermal effects”—the effects that occur in biological tissues without heating them. If the microwave radiation does not heat you up, then it can’t affect you, according to the FCC. Thousands of peer-reviewed articles have shown that a body does not need to get heated to suffer harm from wireless radiation and that the radiation at levels allowed by the FCC can harm children, adults, plants, birds, pets, wildlife, bird migration, and insects. Many other countries have long acknowledged those facts and have much stricter radiation safety thresholds than the FCC has set for the United States.

2013 Review of Heat Guidelines

In 2013, the FCC requested public input on whether it should update its 1996 wireless radiation regulations because, in 1996, most people did not have Wi-Fi, Alexa, smart TVs, smart meters, cell phones, smart watches, or smart cat boxes. In 2019, the FCC decided that its 1996 guidelines for heat exposure were adequate and did not change the guidelines.

2020 lawsuit against the FCC—a win that moved the ball forward

In 2020, in a lawsuit against the FCC, EHT v. FCC, plaintiffs argued that the FCC had not responded to the scientific articles, clinical evidence, and case reports of severe harm. In 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in a well-reasoned opinion, agreed that the FCC had not done its job and ruled that the FCC, except in the area of cancer, did not provide a “reasoned explanation” when it determined that the 1996 guidelines were protective enough and so did not change them. The court also told the FCC to address how wireless radiation affected children and the environment, the health implications of long-term exposure, and the increase in the number of devices and changes in technology.

FCC did not follow the court order and now requests more time and public input

In May 2026, the FCC had not followed the court order, so those who had sued the FCC back in 2020 went to court requesting that the court order the FCC to give the reasoned explanation within 90 days, but the court simply asked the FCC to respond within 30 days. The FCC is now asking for more time to give its reasoned explanation, arguing that the issue is complex, but also that there was a “recent development,” namely its September 17, 2026, request for public input, which is due by October 22, 2026. Although this may provide the FCC with the ability to delay again, it also provides a great opportunity for the public to enter more comments about the health impacts of this radiation, as well as to enter new scientific studies. 

Health and Human Services also requests public input

HHS under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., joined the fight for real wireless safety standards by opening up an HHS docket so the public can weigh in to HHS as well as to FCC. The purpose of the HHS docket is to collect more information, particularly about wireless radiation and human health, so that HHS can follow the MAHA Commission strategy report and evaluate “environmental factors that may affect human health, particularly among children and other potentially vulnerable populations.” Secretary Kennedy has serious concerns about the harmful health impacts of wireless radiation.

Will HHS involvement help push the FCC to do its job and perhaps even adopt actual safety standards?

If HHS finds that there are real concerns about the harmful effects of microwave radiation and sees an urgent need for FCC radiation guidelines to be improved, this will be an opinion that the FCC will have to consider. Perhaps it would push the FCC toward actual health standards and could alert the public to a need for greater protection from the current excessive exposures. 

This appears to be a great step toward protection against the toxic effects of wireless radiation!