Deceptive, insidious, and evil.

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

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

HR 2289 (which is the current bill number) advanced on Tuesday Nov 18, 2025. The House Communications & Technology (C&T) Subcommittee of the Energy & Commerce (E&C) Committee voted on party lines to resurrect this terrible legislation, forwarding the bill to the full E&C Committee.

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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 Energy & Commerce Committee Chair Guthrie and ask him to ensure this bill never advances and does not come before his committee. Please tell him that you oppose and will vote against HR 2289.

In addition, I urge you to amend HR 1343, 1588, 1665, 1681, 1731, and 6046 to exclude wireless from the applicability of these bills. 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.

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More on what 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 even in the public right-of-way

• FCC can cancel local zoning ordinances

• Eliminate almost all environmental and historic preservation reviews

• See EHT factsheet on HR 3557 from the prior Congress (which was nearly identical to HR 2289)

• Watch the webinar with leading attorneys Scott McCollough, Andrew Campanelli, Julian Gresser, and Odette Wilkens

• 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) oppose the preemption provisions of this legislation.

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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Six Other Bills Need Amendment

In addition to HR 2289, the C&T Subcommittee voted UNANIMOUSLY, by voice vote, to advance 6 other bills that would speed the deployment of wireless infrastructure.

• HR 1343, 1588, 1665, 1681, and 1731 would all help speed the deployment of communications facilities on federal lands, including wireless. We support the deployment of wired broadband and take no position on the wired deployment aspects of these bills. However, the provisions of these bills would be used to speed the deployment of wireless facilities.

  • The National Call for Safe Technology Position: AMEND all five of these bills so that they do not apply to applications for wireless facilities or for wired infrastructure that will be used to deploy wireless facilities (for example as backhaul to connect cell towers).

  • If these bills are not amended, members should oppose these bills. 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.

• HR 6046 the Broadband and Telecommunications RAIL Act 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 Committee in the House, which has jurisdiction over FRA.

  • The National Call for Safe Technology Position: AMEND the applicability for this bill (which is currently “telecommunications and broadband service facilities” to exclude wireless facilities and wired infrastructure that will be used to deploy wireless facilities (for example as backhaul to connect cell towers).

  • AMEND Section 723(c)(2) of the bill to make FRA the sole Federal agency with jurisdiction to hear petitions for dispute resolution between telecom carriers and railroads. The FCC is a captured agency and has zero objectivity when it comes to communications matters.

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