PRESS RELEASE
Washington, D.C. — December 15, 2025 — Environmental Health Sciences (EHS), a science-based nonprofit organization, submitted a detailed set of questions and supporting evidence to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation ahead of its 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.
In its submission, EHS not only called on Senators to question how the FCC can continue to fast-track cell towers while failing to comply with the 2021 federal court mandate but also called for full transparency related to its cell phone radiation tests that documented radiation levels exceeding FCC radiation limits when tested in body-contact positions, such as in a pocket.
The filing documents evidence obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests showing that the FCC has withheld cell phone radiation test results from the public, the courts, and policymakers. More recently, Theodora Scarato, Director of the Environmental Health Sciences Wireless and EMF Program, states that her Freedom of Information Act requests reveal the FCC has refused to release the results of its radiation testing of the Apple iPhone 12 and lacks a robust cell phone radiation surveillance program, instead relying on what is tantamount to an honor system.
Scarato further raises that no federal health or environmental agency is actively conducting comprehensive oversight of cell tower radiation exposures, that the FCC lacks a national RF measurement and monitoring program, and that the agency relies largely on industry self-certification rather than independent compliance verification. The submission warns that the public cannot make informed decisions when safety data are hidden, complaints are ignored, and oversight is minimal, and urges the Senate to press the FCC for clear answers and a concrete plan to align U.S. wireless policy with modern science and transparency standards.
Scarato highlights the hundreds of scientists recommending that public exposure is reduced due to mounting scientific evidence of harm.
Read the full letter by Environmental Health Sciences to the Senate here.