Pittsfield Cell Tower Concerned Citizens

12/11/2025

12/09/2025

Please take less than a minute to sign. Anyone, anywhere in America can help to stop unchecked cell tower expansion. Here is the letter;

Dear Legislators,

I strongly urge you not to allow adoption of the FCC’s proposed rules in Docket 25-276, misleadingly titled “Build America: Eliminating Barriers to Wireless Deployments.” This initiative is not about “building America” — it is about stripping away local rights, eliminating public participation, and giving the wireless industry near-total control over the placement of cell towers.

If adopted, these rules would:

• Force automatic approval of towers after 150 days, even if there is strong community opposition.

• Block local governments from requiring independent experts to verify FCC radiation compliance, leaving the industry to self-certify.

• Eliminate vital community protections by prohibiting consideration of aesthetics, property values, and historic preservation.

• Undermine property rights by driving down home values without recourse or compensation.

• Silence residents by removing public hearings, conditional and special use permits, and local decision-making.

These rules would allow towers to be placed virtually anywhere, with no say from the people who must live with them. This is unacceptable.

I respectfully call on both the FCC and Congress to reject these rules and preserve the authority of local governments to protect the health, safety, and character of their communities.

Sincerely,
Your constituent

Imagine waking up to a giant cell tower right next to your home or child’s school. If adopted, new rules proposed by the FCC will give the wireless industry dictatorial control of cell tower placement, giving them the right to install them virtually anywhere...

12/09/2025

DEC 8, 2025- "A case before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court could determine how far local boards of health can go when residents claim a cell tower is making them sick, according to the Berkshire Eagle.

The dispute stems from years of complaints from Pittsfield residents near a South Street tower who report headaches, nausea, insomnia and other symptoms since the site went live in 2020. After a lengthy investigation, the Pittsfield Board of Health issued a 2022 emergency order blaming radio frequency emissions and demanding Verizon justify keeping the tower operating. Verizon sued, arguing federal law bars local action on health concerns if emissions meet FCC limits. The board then rescinded its order, and Verizon dropped the suit.

Residents challenged the board’s reversal, but a Superior Court judge ruled the board never had authority under federal law, prompting this week’s appeal.

During arguments, justices pressed both sides on whether the Telecommunications Act preempts local health powers. Verizon’s position is that federal rules give the FCC sole authority over RF emissions, while the residents’ attorney argued local boards still have a duty to protect public health.

Justices noted the case raises an unresolved legal question. The court has taken the matter under advisement, and the scope of its eventual ruling remains unclear."



Massachusetts High Court Weighs Local Power in Pittsfield Cell Tower Health Dispute - Inside Towers https://share.google/GxlLvCZUPmbjRlOKu

12/07/2025

Yale researchers found exposure to wireless radiofrequency (RF) radiation — emittted by cell towers — interfered with neurodevelopment and increased the expression of autism-related genes in laboratory models of the fetal brain.

Can someone please help Shacktown?!



https://www.ehn.org/wireless-radiation-autism-related-genes?fbclid=IwY2xjawOi1mZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4a-U5LnkxQFR4pNF81HC_It6TwIH_WAc0gVp6ckmGChc9_LweQy7tXqjD14Q_aem_0L8wkq9b_FG7x5V1hoOyeg

A recent study by Yale researchers published in Cell Reports found that exposure to wireless radiofrequency (RF) radiation — emitted by cell phones, cell towers, and Wi-Fi — interfered with neurodevelopment and increased the expression of autism-related genes in laboratory models of the fetal br...

12/06/2025

“My property value just dropped $30,000 to $40,000,” he said. “My kids play under it — my family photos now have this eyesore.”

Rivero is one of a growing number of Florida homeowners who say telecom companies have installed large wireless poles feet from their homes with little warning and almost no way to stop it.

“It is looming over my children’s bedroom,” said Lissette Monzon, who helped form a statewide coalition of residents fighting the placement of poles in neighborhoods. “From St. Pete all the way to Tampa, Orlando, Pensacola.”

The group stresses they are not opposing 5G technology itself, but how close the concrete towers are being placed to homes.

In Hollywood, homeowner Chris Albertelli told city commissioners he moved his family into the living room after a tower went up near his house.

“It’s an intrusion that compromises my family’s well-being,” he said.

But cities have little power to intervene. Florida law gives telecom companies wide authority to install 5G infrastructure, limiting how much municipalities can regulate the placement of towers. A federal bill that advanced in Congress on Wednesday would allow the FCC to expand that authority nationwide.

The Monzon family and others worry about property values, insurance and potential health impacts.

Miami-Dade’s Property Appraiser, Tomas Regalado, told the Kendall Federation of Homeowner Associations that he believes the towers being to close to homes would drop property value by 15%.

A South Florida petition opposing neighborhood tower placements continues to gain signatures as more poles go up across Miami-Dade and Broward.

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2025/12/04/residents-push-back-as-5g-towers-rise-steps-from-their-homes/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOhCFxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR6ISw3OAsYZrNt6zwKZTpVCH1OeQnVqn4nTqgwnm8f0aP-bvr1qpgoC0_Wx7g_aem_GExstQa2-nxlb1XOgHcpKw

When Victor Rivero walked outside his home recently, he was stunned to see a 32-foot concrete 5G tower towering over his property line.

12/05/2025

*NEWS DEC 5, 2025* SJC weighs whether Pittsfield board could act on cell tower health complaints under federal limits

This is a complicated case and this is an excellent summary. Amanda Burke @ Berkshire Eagle did an excellent job reporting.

Pittsfield Cell Tower Concerned Citizens

The case arises from years of complaints by residents who report experiencing headaches, dizziness, nausea, insomnia, skin rashes, palpitations and tinnitus since the tower began operating in 2020.

12/05/2025

"Removing red tape" sounds so good for industry and not so good for municipalities and constituents who actually care where macrocell towers and small cells are sited.

"Congressman Richard Hudson (NC-09), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, had this to say about the bill that will allow the telecom industry to place 5 and 6G towers wherever they want, without you or your local government having any say in the matter.

“There is no better time than now to enact these bills. We are on the verge of closing the digital divide. After four years of delays caused by the Biden-Harris Administration, deployment will soon begin through the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (or BEAD) program,” said Chairman Hudson. “But for this program to succeed, permitting reform is essential. Otherwise, all this money will be tied up in unnecessary reviews and bureaucratic delays.

Clearly Congressman Hudson is in full accord with the telecom industry and has no concern for the countless studies that show harm from these technologies.

Congressman Buddy Carter (GA-01) on the Proportional Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act says: “This straightforward reform will remove a key barrier to broadband deployment, especially on federal lands, where reviews can take more than two years. This amendment combines legislation led by every one of my Republican colleagues on this committee, and I would like to thank them for their thoughtful proposals to bring affordable broadband to their communities quickly and ensure that taxpayer dollars are not wasted on more red tape.”

Buddy Carter doesn’t want you or your local officials to have any legal authority to protect your community from the dangers of 5 and 6G. He and the other members of this committee want to take those Constitutional rights from you and give them to Big Telecom.

Clearly these congress critters and the others on the committee who voted in favor of this reversal of our Constitutional rights have opted to sell their soul to the devil (the telecom industry) for 30 pieces of silver so that industry can destroy our health and the health of this planet. They could care less about their constituents. They are a fully captured committee pretending to do something important.

We have one last chance to stop them. The final vote is tomorrow. Call your representatives today, in particular if they’re on the Energy and Commerce Committee. Go here to get your local representatives contact information.

Here is an idea of what you can say.

“I don’t want cell towers installed in front of our homes, outside our children’s bedrooms or on our schools, and I don’t want big government in Washington DC stripping away local control. Please oppose these telecom-sponsored bills: HR 2289, 1343, 1588, 1665, 1681, 1731 and 6046.”

If you’re not a constituent of any of those committee members you can still call them and tell them that although you’re not a constituent, you don’t want anyone to be exposed to the harmful radiation from 5 and 6G towers.

You can also go here and send an email.

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-telecom-overreach/

If any of those representatives try and tell you 5G is safe, point them to this list of over 100 articles about the dangers of cell phones, cell towers and 5G."

https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/elected-officials-admit-they-work?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=226642&post_id=180513818&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=b7cwa&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwY2xjawOfPElleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR65ayjZC8Wm3oMxP4UiJ6u4f_3VJNqjeE4Blojz0_eSJZ0u-1k_B5BMRrc98w_aem_crikVayGxk4JuHmb0XwNTg

urgent action needed today!

12/05/2025

Excuse me, why? Can the FCC just ignore us forever?

BREAKING: FCC Closes More Than 2,000 Inactive Proceedings

Under Chairman Brendan Carr’s leadership, this initiative closes largest ever number of dormant documents in a single proceeding. ✂️📄

🔗: https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-closes-more-2000-inactive-proceedings-0

12/04/2025

Thoughtful coverage of the cell tower issue. It's easy for leaders in rural areas to look at cities and say, "they are so densified" or "look how many they have there and no one cares" when the truth is the same health issues, siting issues, safety issues exist in NYC as they do anywhere. And people in NYC are fighting back.

I've had the honor of testifying in NYC at the City Council. NYC residents want what we all want- to be safe at home, to be healthy and to not be exposed to harmful RF levels from sources they can't control, monitor or mitigate.

The historic protections have rescued them so far.. but if these bad bills stand, historic preservation will be a thing of the past.

Health and safety is a bipartisan issue, but stripping all control by our Republican brothers and sisters, and leaving nothing, is certainly feeling very political.

12/04/2025

*NEWS* Apparently the answer is yes, Republicans voted yes to strip all municipal control of towers. Democrats voted no and supported cities and towns maintaining municipal control to say where they prefer for towers to be located.

The Democrats lost and all of the telecom sponsored bills just passed the US House Energy and Commerce committee today.

They passed along party lines.

The vote on HR 2289, with the most impact to local control, passed 26 to 24. This takes away historic preservation, viewshed, zoning, every reason we have a bylaw in the first place. Every protection is gone and towers could be fast tracked, no community discussion, imput or say.

Luckily, good people do not want to see this happen.

Yes, we love broadband, yes, we need telecommunications, yes, we need affordable, accessible, reliable internet and yes, removing obstacles to deployment sounds great. But when removing obstacles is code for, "no one gets a say at all in where these are built," that's silencing constituents and decimating the bylaws each city and town worked so hard to craft with the input of town planners, zoning board members, community development, and yes, the wireless industry and concerned citizens. All voices need to be at the table.

The bills will now go on to the full House for a vote on whether to be adopted as law.

We can stop this. We will. We must.

Thankfully there are still legal hurdles for these bills prior to being instituted into law, and our work, continues.

Thank you, JL for this post, and tireless work.

We called and emailed everyone on the list, and we pray some of the education and awareness made a difference.

Representative Tricia Farley-Bouvier Paul Mark Governor Maura Healey Ed Markey Elizabeth Warren Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell Thank you for supporting the economy, innovation and technology, and balancing it with the values and input of your leaders and boards in your cities and towns. Thank you for supporting constituents in having a seat at the table. If these bills are voted into law, no one at all gets a seat at the table.

Please help stop this federal overreach that removes the reasons why we have a local government in the first place. Please don't let this override happen. We created bylaws to site towers away from bedrooms and classrooms, or to prioritize putting them in industrial and commercial areas first before putting them in the heart of a family neighborhood for a good reason. Please help make our existing bylaws stand and urge everyone to vote no on these bad bills.

Please, thank you, and we are begging you.

12/02/2025

Please read, share & take action today.

Theodora Scarato, director of the Wireless and EMF Program for Environmental Health Sciences, urges Americans to contact the FCC and demand the agency reject new rules that would strip local communities of their right to have a say in where telecom companies build new cell towers.

Learn More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/health/worried-about-cell-towers-in-your-neighborhood-heres-what-you-can-do

12/02/2025

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