Publisher’s Note: New Hampshire’s 5G/EMF study committee released its report/findings late last week. Thanks to Telecom Vermont citizen activists for the highlights, below. Worth reporting that Vermont’s 3 Congressional representatives – Leahy, Sanders and Welch – received a total of more than $1.2 million in Telecom industry campaign contributions in recent months.

Here are a few excerpts from the report (emphases added by Vermont’s Steve Gorlick):

“…The significant disconnect between the regulatory agencies’ pronouncements that cellphone radiation is safe and the findings of thousands of scientific studies was one of the major issues that the Commission sought to address. … It is to be noted that the only country with higher radiation thresholds than the U.S. is Japan (see Appendix F), and a large number of independent scientists have concluded that the thresholds for Japan and the U.S. are unsafe.

“A likely explanation as to why regulatory agencies have opted to ignore the body of scientific evidence demonstrating the negative impact of cellphone radiation is that those agencies are “captured” (see Harvard University publication entitled, “Captured Agency: How the Federal Communications Commission Is Dominated by the Industries It Presumably Regulates” linked in Appendix G). This report documents how the leadership roles in some agencies (the FCC in particular) are filled by individuals with strong industry ties and hence are more focused on industry interests than the health of citizens….”

“Industry projects that over 800,000 small cell towers will be necessary to implement 5G. Many are being erected in the public rights-of-way in New Hampshire neighborhoods and mounted on new poles, streetlights, and utility poles directly in front of homes. However, because of the rules currently in place, individuals and municipalities cannot use health or environmental concerns as a reason to object….”

“The Commission… is still not certain why the standards for acceptable RF-radiation are set so much higher in the United States than other industrialized nations; is concerned [about] the modulation of frequencies and the combined effect of ‘the soup’ of RF-waves surrounding us today, which will likely increase with time; is aware that there is much research showing potential health risks and understands that much more research is required; is cognizant that our country historically has been beset by examples of products being declared safe only later to be proven unsafe; and is very aware that the World Health Organization and the whole insurance industry are hedging their bets against RF-radiation because of potential harm.”

EOP.