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Cell towers go up. City council is federally forbidden to ask about health. Section 704 did that. Safety limits unchanged since '96. Unaffiliated. Unimpressed.

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The science moved.
The questions piled up.
Now HHS has opened a formal RF/EMF health inquiry.

Docket: HHS-OASH-2026-0397

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The technology changed. The questions remained.
Now HHS is asking about RF/EMF exposure, cumulative exposure, children, current standards and research gaps.

Docket: HHS-OASH-2026-0397

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The fresh dirt and the coiled cable are what make this land. It reads as something that happened overnight, which is exactly how people experience it. Pairs well with Meme 2 from Batch One.

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Data center demand is landing on residential ratepayers. The buildings are private. The grid upgrades are not.

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The FCC's September 11 public notice states that the scope of the inquiry is strictly confined to the specific areas the court identified and to record evidence already before it. The record it is refreshing dates to 2019. The limits date to 1996.

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The FCC has opened ET Docket No. 13-84 for comment on the issues the D.C. Circuit sent back in 2021. File through the FCC Electronic Comment Filing System and enter 13-84 as the proceeding. HHS has opened a separate inquiry, and a comment filed at one does not reach the other.

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August 26, 2026: the D.C. Circuit orders the FCC to explain within 30 days why it has not complied with the 2021 mandate. The response is due September 25. The mandate itself is five years old.

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In 2021 the D.C. Circuit found the FCC failed to provide a reasoned explanation for keeping the 1996 radiation exposure guidelines. Five years later the agency has not answered the remand.

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47 U.S.C. 332(c)(7)(B)(iv). No state or local government may regulate the placement of personal wireless service facilities on the basis of environmental effects of radiofrequency emissions, so long as the facility complies with FCC regulations.

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Cameras collect it. Towers carry it. Data centers process it. Three local fights, one system. Your power bill pays for the third part

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Small cell deployment puts transmitting equipment in the public right of way at roughly the height of a second-story window. Under Section 704, your local government cannot refuse it on health grounds.

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The FCC's radiofrequency exposure guidelines were adopted in 1996 and have not been updated since. Everything else about how you use a phone has changed. The limits have not.