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B. 2019 Order Fails to Fulfill the FCC's Responsibility to Protect the <br /> Public <br /> The FCC fails in the 2019 order to recognize its regulatory responsibility to <br /> protect the public from RF radiation. Although the FCC has aggressively limited <br /> state and local authority to protect the public from the environmental effects of RF <br /> radiation,' it has failed to collect and review the information it needs to support its <br /> own RF radiation standards, which were last updated in 1996. <br /> 1. FCC Failed to Justify its RF Standards <br /> In its 2019 order, the FCC resolved the inquiry it had initiated in 2013 <br /> regarding the adequacy of its RF radiation limits. Despite numerous scientific <br /> studies of potential harm from exposure below the limits set by the FCC in 1996, <br /> the Commission made the decision not to change them.' <br /> The Commission had not updated its RF standards since 1996. Following <br /> issuance of the FCC's original standards in 1985, ANSI/IEEE adopted new <br /> guidelines in 1992 for RF radiation exposure that applied to additional categories, <br /> including cell phones. 'The FCC proposed updating its NEPA regulations to reflect <br /> 42 See, e.g., 2018 Declaratory Ruling, supra note 26 at 9096 ( J24)(Commission has <br /> acknowledged "an urgent need to remove any unnecessary barriers to such <br /> deployment"). <br /> 2019 Order, supra note 5, at ¶2. <br />