The Center for Safer Wireless

09/30/2023

Best Practices for Safe Technology in Schools
Created by the Santa Clara County Medical Association
Environmental Health Committee
Feb 14, 2023

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07/08/2023

Happy to see a Fairfax VA County group is urging the school district to have a screen-free day for next year!

Fairfax County’s School Health Advisory Committee is recommending that the Virginia school system set districtwide guidelines for technology use by grade level and set a cap for the amount of time the youngest learners spend on screens every day.

03/02/2023

T-Mobile put up the tower at Washington Elementary School in Wyandotte, and parents say part of it is on the playground.

12/05/2022

5G on airplanes in Europe! With all the controversy about 5G it is crazy that they decided to allow it in planes. Let's hope it doesn't impact the airplane mode that is on the cell phones.

No more putting the airplane mode during flights. On November 26, the European Union announced that it will be possible to enjoy a 5G connection on flights, which means that the use of airplane mode is not mandatory. A configuration with more than 10 years of life, originally invented by and for use...

11/10/2022

Excellent article from Propublica about the science showing the need for the FCC to review and change its current regulations on wireless radiation. This should be posted everywhere on social media so that people will learn that they have to be careful with how they use their cell phones. You can go to www.centerforsaferwireless.org to learn about how to use you cell phone more safely. It also raises the safety issues with cell towers.

The wireless industry is rolling out thousands of new transmitters amid a growing body of research that calls cellphone safety into question. Federal regulators say there’s nothing to worry about — even as they rely on standards established in 1996.

09/28/2022

After many years of delaying tactics from the telecommunication companies, the people who believe they got brain cancer from their cell phones will have their case heard in court.

Evidentiary hearings are underway in a Washington, D.C., courtroom this week, to decide if a massive lawsuit against the cellphone industry will be allowed to go to trial. Multiple families are suing most of the major wireless companies and their trade association, asking for hundreds of millions in...

09/11/2022

Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) awarded (Aug 2022) for UK child on the
basis of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS). Parents have now won a 5 year legal battle against 2 local authorities to have their child
accommodated in school for EHS.

06/11/2022

"Teen Screen Time Goes Hand in Hand With Wacky Bedtimes During the Pandemic" This study found that screen time and poor sleep were associated with more symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress.

Girls spent more time on social media, and boys on video games

05/12/2022

"Will 5G Kill Me? When Telecom Politics Become a Deadly Sin." By Ahmad El Hajj

International Telecoms Business Magazine

05/12/2022

No US Government agency looks at the cell tower radiation effect on wildlife.

A growing body of scientific studies showed electromagnetic fields from the extremely low frequencies common to power lines and radio-frequency radiation, the kind from cell towers and mobile devices, may be harmful to wildlife as well as humans. A three-part review (Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) of th...

03/24/2022

Read this press release which says "The Park Service Eliminates Public Notice of New Cell Towers
Public Shut Out of Review of Telecom Expansion as 5G Era Dawns" - "These rules were issued in the final days of the Trump administration. A further irony is that they developed in response to a critical 2019 report from Interior’s Office of Inspector General that recommended NPS take steps to improve public notice and involvement in park wireless decision-making. " This is very sad for the parks and all who enjoy them!

Public Shut Out of Review of Telecom Expansion as 5G Era Dawns

02/07/2022

Good article. "“There needs to be regulatory standards to address EMFs affecting wildlife,” said Albert Manville, a retired U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist and one of the paper’s authors.

Manville also is an adjunct science professor at Johns Hopkins University.

He said he provided the Federal Communications Commission with some research on how the electromagnetic pollution can hurt wildlife and the steps that could be taken to lessen the impacts.....But the FCC has been unresponsive, Manville said, arguing the agency tends to accommodate the industry it’s supposed to regulate."

Authors of study say FCC has been unresponsive to report, even as it was ordered by court to review guidelines.