🚨 Updates 5/20/26

Enforcing the Federal Court Order - FCC Must Revisit Decades-Old Radiation Limits

Children's Health Defense (CHD) and Environmental Health Trust have returned to federal court demanding the FCC finally comply with a 2021 appeals court ruling that ordered the agency to reassess its 30-year-old radio frequency (RF) radiation exposure limits. The court had specifically required the FCC to examine impacts on children, the environment, and the cumulative effects of long-term exposure, none of which the FCC has addressed. Instead, the agency has continued fast-tracking wireless infrastructure expansion under those same outdated standards, even as scientific evidence of harm continues to grow. Read full story here: CHD Files Petition for a Writ of Mandamus

What This Means for Nevada County Residents

The FCC's exposure limits are the same federal standards that govern every cell tower and wireless facility proposed or operating in Nevada County right now. If those limits are inadequate, as a federal court has already suggested they may be, residents here have no federal backstop protecting them. That's why we are working to bring together local community voices to call on the Board of Supervisors, the Planning Commission, and Planning staff to take another look at the County's recently approved wireless ordinance and strengthen it with the protections our community deserves.

New Towers and 5G Antennas Headed Your Way — Here's Why

Despite comprehensive legal and technical guidance, the Nevada County Board of Supervisors passed a Communications Facilities Ordinance on April 14th that deliberately waived protections they had every legal right to enforce. What it means for your community and what you can do: NEW BLOG

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