Resolution Supporting Legislation for an Immediate Moratorium on Small Cell Antenna Installations until Health and Environmental Impact is Assessed

Whereas the biological health and environmental impact of a 4G/5G small cell antenna infrastructure has never been assessed.

Whereas current Federal Communications Commission (FCC) radiofrequency (RF) radiation safety guidelines were established in 1996 and are thermally based only.

Whereas current FCC RF safety guidelines do not apply to chronic non-thermal exposure situations as with 4G/5G small cell antennas in public rights-of-way.

Whereas the world’s largest insurance and reinsurance companies refuse to insure the telecommunications industry for liability on electromagnetic fields including wireless RF radiation.

Whereas the insurance industry recognizes wireless radiation as a leading risk and has placed exclusions in their policies not covering damages caused by the pathological properties of electromagnetic radiation.

Whereas cell phone manufacturers have in the legal section within the device instructions to keep the phone at least 5 mm from the body.

Whereas thousands of peer-reviewed studies, including the recently published U.S. National Toxicology Program $30 million study, are showing a wide-range of statistically significant DNA damage, brain and heart tumors, infertility, and many other ailments, and are being ignored by the FCC.

Whereas the FCC-sanctioned guidelines for public exposure to wireless radiation are based only on the thermal effect on the temperature of the skin and do not account for the non-thermal, non-ionizing, biological effects of wireless RF radiation.

Whereas the FCC radiofrequency exposure limits set for the United States are 100 times higher than countries like Russia, China, Italy, Switzerland, and most of Eastern Europe.

Whereas the World Health Organization (WHO) signify that wireless radiation is a Group B Possibly Carcinogenic to Humans category, a group that includes lead, thalidomide, and others, and some experts who sat on the WHO committee in 2011 are now calling for it to be placed in the Group 1, which are known carcinogens, and such information is being ignored by the FCC.

Whereas more than 250 of the worlds leading scientists signed an appeal to the WHO and the United Nations to protect public health from wireless RF radiation.

Whereas the cumulative biologically damaging effects of the ever-growing numbers of pulsed RF signals riding on the back of the electromagnetic sine waves have not been explored.

Resolved, the City Council of _________ directs the City Administrator to communicate to Michigan's elected officials at the State government who represent the City's residents the City's support for legislation calling for an immediate moratorium on wireless infrastructure including small cell antenna installations in Michigan’s public rights-of-way until safe levels are established for long-term exposure to pulsed modulated non-ionizing RFR at non-thermal levels, established by independent researchers without conflicts of interest, in order to assess biological health impact of continuing the expansion of the wireless infrastructure.

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1. Please copy, paste, and print the above draft resolution which was modeled after New Hampshire's bill (now a law): "Establishing a commission to study the environmental and health effects of evolving 5G technology."  
2. Hand deliver it to your local government officials.  
3. Ask them to please read this draft resolution and consider passing it or something similar.  
4. Know that we are not asking for too much when we ask for environmental and biological health impact assessments on the 4G / 5G small cell antenna infrastructure.