Legal Opinion
Emr Network v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided February 11, 2005No. 03-1336PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge.
A variety of facilities and products subject -to Federal Communications Commission regulation, including towers and other facilities for radio, TV, and cell phone communications, and cell phones themselves, transmit radio signals — and with them ra-diofrequency (“RF”) radiation. At certain levels RF radiation -may. have adverse “thermal” health effects, caused by heating human tissue. The Commission has issued regulatory guidelines based on its assessment of those effects.
Non-thermal effects are also of potential concern, but in its last review of its…
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