URGENT: Help Stop HR 2289, Cell Tower Antennas Everywhere

Updated 4/19/25

Despite over a hundred thousand letters from groups across the country, leadership in the US House of Representatives is advancing this dangerous legislation.

We need your help to stop it.

On April 20, at 4 PM EDT, the House Rules Committee will vote on advancing this legislation to the full house.

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“Designed to strip all powers from state and local governments…over the placement of [wireless] facilities.” Deceptive, insidious, and evil.

That’s how telecom attorney Andrew Campanelli described nearly-identical legislation proposed in the prior Congress.

HR 2289 will allow industry to place antennas and cell towers virtually anywhere in America - including in your neighbor’s front yard or on their roof, on your apartment window, and in front of your children’s classrooms. All with no informed consent, no safety oversight, and an industry shielded from liability. The bill even says state and federal courts will have to bend the knee and be bound by FCC rules, flying in the face of the 2024 Loper Bright decision that overturned courts’ deference to the FCC.

Having failed to get this bill passed so far in this Congress, or in the prior Congress, the industry is now claiming that the bill is needed for the global AI arms race – a false and misleading narrative. In fact, AI is hosted in data centers, not on cell towers. Forcing cell towers on our homes and schools has nothing to do with AI.

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1. Call your member of Congress (call the Capitol switchboard (202) 224‑3121 and ask for your representative, or click to look up who your representative is and get their direct phone number) and tell them the following:

I am your constituent and support the National Call for Safe Technology. I am calling to urge you to oppose HR 2289.

Please contact the Speaker of the House and the Rules Committee and ask them to ensure HR 2289 does not come to the floor for a vote, and that no part of this bill is inserted into other bills. If it does go to the floor, ensure that there is a roll call vote.

In addition, I urge you to oppose HR 8255, which would promote unfettered deployment of hundreds of thousands of satellites with no safety review. Congress should not be streamlining deployment of wireless facilities unless and until the FCC has promulgated updated exposure guidelines for radiofrequency radiation and complied with an order issued by the DC Circuit in 2021.

[Describe how you’ve been adversely impacted by the irresponsible placement of antennas everywhere]

Thank you for your consideration.

2. Email a staffer you've already met with - if you've already had a meeting with staff from your member of Congress, find the email from that meeting and REPLY ALL and urge them to oppose HR 2289.

3. Forward this link to your family and friends.

4. Share this link on your local listservs / community email lists / social media channels.

5. Call your local lawmakers (e.g. state delegates, county council, city council) and urge them to call your member of Congress to oppose these bills.

6. Use the action alerts from other groups

Remember, be clear, respectful, and concise in your message. Explain how this issue affects you personally.

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More on HR 2289:

  • Virtually eliminate local zoning discretion
  • Automatically approve antennas on almost any structure
  • Allow 200-foot cell towers in your neighbor’s yard – not only in public rights-of-way
  • State and federal courts subservient to FCC rules
  • Eliminate almost all environmental and historic preservation reviews
  • See our factsheet on HR 2289
  • Watch the webinar with leading attorneys Scott McCollough, Andrew Campanelli, Julian Gresser, and Odette Wilkens, when an identical bill (HR 3557) was introduced in the prior Congress
  • Opposed by MAHA Action and the National Association of Counties, the National League of Cities, the US Conference of Mayors, and the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA)

Instead of this ill-conceived legislation, we urge Congress to pass our proposed legislation compelling the FCC to comply with an order issued by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in 2021 in the case Environmental Health Trust, et al. v. FCC (DC Cir 2021, No. 20-1025), ordering the FCC to address 11,000 pages of evidence on adverse impacts of wireless radiation.

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Other Wireless Bills Pending

In addition to HR 2289, the E&C Committee voted UNANIMOUSLY to advance 6 other bills that would speed the deployment of wireless infrastructure.

  • OPPOSE HR 8255, which would speed the deployment of hundreds of thousands of satellites, with no safety review.
  • Amend HR 1343, 1588, 1665, 1681, and 1731, which would help speed the deployment of communications facilities (including wireless) on federal lands, including National Forests, National Parks, wilderness areas, and federal property in communities throughout the country. See our letter of 11/26/25 to E&C Committee leadership to AMEND these bills.
  • Amend HR 6046 the Broadband and Telecommunications RAIL Act, which would speed deployment of communications facilities in public rights-of-way that cross railway corridors and in railway rights-of-way. The bill also authorizes a power grab by FCC, usurping authority from the Federal Railroad Administration, even though the bill has not been referred to the Transportation & Infrastructure (T&I) Committee in the House, which has jurisdiction over FRA. See our letter of 11/26/25 to T&I and E&C Committee leadership to AMEND these bills.

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