{"id":20397,"date":"2021-08-21T03:20:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T10:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=20397"},"modified":"2025-10-06T03:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:36:06","slug":"eht-wins-court-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=20397","title":{"rendered":"EHT WINS COURT CHALLENGE!\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

IN HISTORIC DECISION, FEDERAL COURT ORDERS FCC TO EXPLAIN WHY IT IGNORED SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE SHOWING HARM FROM WIRELESS RADIATION\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit judges in favor of environmental health groups and petitioners; finds FCC violated the Administrative Procedure Act and failed to respond to comments on environmental harm.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in<\/a> the historic case EHT et al. v. the FCC that the December 2019 decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to retain its 1996 safety limits for human exposure to wireless radiation was \u201carbitrary and capricious.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The court held that the FCC failed to respond to \u201crecord evidence that exposure to RF radiation at levels below the Commission\u2019s current limits may cause negative health effects unrelated to cancer.\u201d Further, the agency demonstrated \u201ca complete failure to respond to comments concerning environmental harm caused by RF radiation.\u201d\u00a0The court found the FCC ignored numerous organizations, scientists\u00a0 and medical doctors who called on them to update limits and the court found the FCC failed to address these issues:<\/span><\/p>\n