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A series of judicial reviews has exposed critical gaps in how local and central government regulate EMF exposure. On 26th November 2025 a new case “REULA7” was lodged. It is a 60pp submission proving incompatibility between domestic law and retained EU obligations. The legal lever being used is the duty to align UK law with the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC), which requires local authorities to reconcile health risks before approving new wireless infrastructure.

Under EECC Annex I(3)(b) and Article 45(h), public health must be treated as imperative, and risk reconciliation must occur before deciding whether to impose a health condition. Yet both local authorities and courts have systematically avoided this obligation. See BLOG here.

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Mast Applications

•Take action steps on RFinfo: UPDATED Template Letter Step2: rfinfo.co.uk/mast-objection/

•New portal for Mast planning application comments – ‘Esthers list’ live since August 2024

The much disputed mast application in Cheltenham has just been resolved. Despite various legal challenges not resulting in an overturning of the prior approval ‘granted’, the Telco applicant has decided not to erect the mast anyway. A strong local campaign against the mast which included a building within the exclusion zone resulted in a weight of public feeling achieving a retreat. Latest case: Thomas V Cheltenham  – UKSC 0066. Also see Legal Update Blog

Massachusetts Supreme Court to Hear Landmark Cell Tower Case – result ?

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Articles

Wireless, Non-Ionizing Radiation And Children’s Health At School. A presentation by Dr. Erica Mallery Blythe. A secondary school near London has decided to hardwire internet, and a few others have been inspired by this engagement. Speaking to educators, parents, and policymakers, Dr. Mallery-Blythe explains that while society has long accepted wireless technology as harmless, modern research tells a very different story.

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Stop the FCC Cell Tower Fast Track: EMF Remedy, youtube

Stop The FCC Cell Tower Fast Track: A Video Primer to Share with Keith Cutter and Theodora Scarato

The Feds’ Proposal to Fast Track Cell Towers and Strip Local Control. Environmental Health News. Youtube 1hr.

Light It Up For Local Control! Stop the federal cell tower takeover. CHD.

Meanwhile in the UK de-regulation follows suit: this is the consultation announcement on a 2025/2026 NPPF with a new section 9 on Telecoms.

Is EMF Cooking Your Mitochondria? Naomi Wolf. Dr. Martha Herbert and activist Camilla Rees warn about a new set of proposed bills that would place 5G telecom towers every 750 feet, overturning local limitations on siting these dangerous structures. 

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Are you an animal lover, or a lover of plants? In their new paper, author B. Blake Levitt and team point out how man-made radiation is harming our plants and animals and how international standards aren’t addressing the problem. They also point out ways the problem can be addressed.

A Key Scientific Paper of the Past Year Reveals Electromagnetic Field Risks to Almost All Life on Earth. A major scientific synthesis by Henshaw and Philips (2024), ranked among one of the most read papers in the International Journal of Radiation Biology over the past year. The paper reveals something extraordinary and deeply alarming. Almost all life on earth is magnetosensitive.

World’s first wireless charging highway in France powers EVs at 200 kW while driving

10 Studies Detail Health Risks of 5G. Dr Mercola, update from 5 years ago.

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In the words of our campaigner Neil McDougall, working closely with Karen Churchill on the lateset REULA7 submission, which follows their Objectors Rights ‘RRR’ case.

“Legal outcomes which define public rights aren’t a narrative, they are acts of fact.The Environmental Health Service are protecting the August 2021 Colombia Court ruling that the FCC are obliged to reassess its emission guidelines against extensive evidence of RF harms that it hadn’t taken into account, and still refuses to do so.

The European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) agreed whilst the UK was an EU Member State declared that public health was imperative to the rollout of telecommunication services, and mechanisms were designed in to the provisions of the EECC to achieve that imperative purpose.

Public rights to health protection and participation in decision making on the installation of mast and small cell systems in the US, the UK and across remaining EU Members States are at stake if regulators fail to enact such provisions, and deny their legal obligations.”

Both the Environmental Health Services and the ICBE-EMF raised alarm re wireless deregulation, without impact:

Link to the full EHS letter

Link to the ICBE-EMF Letter 

Environmental Health Sciences Urges Senate to Demand Transparency and Accountability from FCC on Cell Tower, Cell Phone and Wireless Radiation Risk. Report from the US on the outcome of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation being challenged by the US Environmental Health Trust ahead of its Monday 15 December Federal Communications Commission (FCC) oversight hearing, urging Senators to confront what it describes as serious failures in transparency, oversight, and enforcement related to wireless radiation, public health and the environment

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Velma Lyrae vs Somerset Council

“… even if the November 2023 application is accepted as being a fresh application that does not mean that the Defendant is required to find that the Claimant is vulnerable for the purposes of the Act. That is a question which will have to be addressed by the Defendant if the application is accepted as being a new application. It may be that the Defendant will find that the Claimant suffers from electrohypersensitivity and that this makes her vulnerable for the purposes of the Act. Alternatively, it may be that the Defendant will find either that the electrohypersensitivity is not established or that the symptoms flowing from it do not make the Claimant vulnerable. Those are matters for the future. They are not addressed in this judgment and the order to be made will not predetermine the outcome of that exercise.“

https://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/format.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2025/3261.html&query=(Lyrae)

APP/C1625/W/25/3360512 The Cross, Nelson Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2HL

More ‘5G’ masts are being stopped around the country every day, but what matters about this particular Appeal Decision is that it has identified health concerns. It has been a huge challenge to get this particular material considered acknowledged previously, because of the stranglehold of NPPF para 123. You can read the Decision here: para 14-17.

Although the rulings and appeals have been complex, the Thomas V Cheltenham Borough court case has helped to support objecting on health grounds. The officers reasoning for supporting concerns around health was very interesting, para 13 where she quotes:

“A previous prior approval at the site has been subject to a High Court and Court of Appeal Judgement, specifically in relation to the impacts of a similar development on the health of nearby residents. The High Court judgement states that guidelines expressly state that EMF’s can cause harm by interfering with medical implants, and such issues were beyond the scope of the guidelines. Therefore, requesting additional information regarding the EMF’s and potential impact on nearby residents with medical implants would not involve setting health guidelines different from the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) guidelines for public exposure.”

Gofundme link to support Karen and Neils efforts on UK legal challenges

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New blog page: coming soon Summary of UK legal actions and roadmap

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Mast Applications

•Take action steps on RFinfo: UPDATED Template Letter Step2: rfinfo.co.uk/mast-objection/

•New portal for Mast planning application comments – ‘Esthers list’ live since August 2024

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Technical

Press Conference Video Release Wireless Radiation And Public Health: What The WHO Reviews Reveal—And Don’t.   ICBE-EMF Scientists Challenge WHO-Commissioned Reviews on Wireless Radiation Safety

World’s first wireless charging highway in France powers EVs at 200 kW while driving

Reminder about ‘fake 5G’ and ‘real 5G’. In the UK we currently still have ‘fake 5G’. The real 5G is mmWave and phased array – about which there has been so much further concern since 2020.

In the UK we haven’t escaped, the ‘real 5G’ auctions start in September 2025
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/frequencies/mmwave-spectrum-for-new-uses#updates
 
To date, since 2021 only the 700Mhz and 3.6-3.8Ghz are the latest additions.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/spectrum-awards

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Health and Research

Prince William reveals strict ‘rule’ he and Kate impose on their children

UNPLUG TO UPLIFT – SafeTechInternational webinar, 01.11.25. Recording available. Webinar on children’s and our use of technology. Children around the world now spend many of their waking hours glued to screens: Now is the time to pause and consider how we might better help our children develop the wisdom they will need to steward technology and AI in the service of Life.

The MAHA Commission this week released its second official report, Make Our Children Healthy Again, outlining its strategies and recommendations to combat childhood chronic disease. The new report reflects Environmental Health Trust recommendations as summarized in its recent letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. urging synchronized, current research concerning wireless radiation exposure standards among the nation’s healthcare agencies and the Federal Communications Commission. We at EHT are greatly encouraged to see that electromagnetic radiation exposure has finally been raised as a cabinet-level priority in the new MAHA Commission report.

Simple Engineering Fixes Could Dramatically Reduce Cellphone Radiation – ICBE EMF

A scoping review and evidence map of radiofrequency field exposure and genotoxicity: assessing in vivo, in vitro, and epidemiological data. Collective evidence reveals that RF-EMF exposures may be genotoxic and could pose a cancer risk. 

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New WHO-Funded Study Reports High Certainty Of The Evidence Linking Cell Phone Radiation To Cancer In Animals In response, leading scientists from the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (ICBE-EMF) are calling for immediate policy action to protect public health and the environment, warning that further delay could have serious consequences amid the global surge in the use of wireless communication devices.

James C. Lin denounces the lack of health safety in mobile phone Standards – July 2025. Professor James C. Lin, world expert in bioelectromagnetism, influential former member of ICNIRP(2004-2016) and winner of an IEEE 2025 Award, publishes (July 21, 2025) a key article in Frontiers in Public Health. In it, he denounces the weakening of radio frequency (RF) exposure standards by ICNIRP, the influence of the “military-industrial complex”, and the connivance of global regulators. These findings confirm those of Phonegate Alert, highlighting the choice of mobile phone manufacturers to endanger the health of users for the benefit of the connectivity of their devices.

Health and safety practices and policies concerning human exposure to RF/microwave radiation There are substantial incongruities and inconsistencies in the ICNIRP guidelines and IEEE/ICES standards. Furthermore, apart from the guideline’s irregularities, the biased assessments of the scientific database and less trustworthy appraisals such as many of the recent WHO sponsored systematic reviews make it difficult to reach a judgment with confidence. Some of the safety guidelines are irrelevant, debatable, and absent of scientific justification from the standpoint of safety and public health protection.

Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Field Emissions and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Infants: A Prospective Cohort Study Even after adjusting for low birth weight, we found that higher levels of radiation were associated with poorer outcomes for cognitive domains of development such as problem solving, and personal-social areas. Thus, there is a need to monitor the neuro-development of children in whom the RF-EMF radiations are expected to be higher (such as very close to cell phone towers, too many gadgets in the house).

A Systematic Review of the Impact of Electromagnetic Waves on Living Beings These findings underscore the significant health and environmental risks associated with rising exposure levels of EMF, highlighting the urgent need for strategies to mitigate the risks.

Weak Radiofrequency Field Effects on Biological Systems Mediated through the Radical Pair Mechanism

Environment

Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields reduce bumble bee visitation to flowers In our work, we found that electromagnetic fields can indeed influence foraging bumble bees and reduce their flower visitation rates. Urban areas are important habitats for pollinators and the electromagnetic fields will continue to play a large and important role in the human environment. 

Legal

UK Supreme Court rejects two related 5G Regulation Cases

This is a clear breach of human rights — and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is now the only place left where the truth might be acknowledged.

In both cases (below) the government and the courts have:

• Denied us a fair and public hearing (Article 6)  
• Ignored health impacts on our homes and private lives (Article 8)  
• Blocked access to and scrutiny of risk information (Article 10). 
• Left us without any effective remedy (Article 13)

The government still has one last chance to act. Under the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023, the government have until June 2026 to put existing EECC public-health duties into effect. We are calling on them to use those powers now to resolve the conflict between Court of Appeal rulings — in Thomas v Cheltenham, the EECC was ruled part of UK law; in our case, it was ruled “not part of English law.”

Until they do, we will press ahead with our European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) application.

Right, Regulations, Remedies (N McDougall & K Churchill V Dept of Health, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC),  Dept of Scinence & Innovation and Technology – UKSC 0071

Thomas V Cheltenham – UKSC 0066 

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EHT Files Petition Demanding FCC Comply with 2021 Federal Court Mandate on Wireless Radiation Safety

https://ehtrust.org/eht-petition-demanding-fcc-comply-with-federal-court-mandate-on-wireless-radiation-safety

The Environmental Health Trust (EHT) has filed a petition urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to comply with the August 13, 2021 federal court mandate in the case Environmental Health Trust v. FCC.

EHT’s petition implores the FCC to comply with the mandate and to encourage the wireless industry to start “competing on safety.” EHT highlighted the scientific, medical, and policy developments which have occurred in the four years since the court issued its mandate—increasing the urgency with which the commission must act. In order to protect children, the general population, the environment, and U.S. leadership in the wireless industry, EHT intends to take further legal action to enforce the mandate if the commission fails to comply with the law as established by the court.

Original blog from 2021: https://rfinfo.co.uk/landmark-fcc-case/