WASHINGTON-Oral argument in the appeal of the Federal Communications Commission’s 1996 radio-frequency radiation exposure guidelines has been postponed until February or March.
The case, Cellular Task Force v. FCC, had been scheduled to be heard last June and, after numerous delays, appeared set for the week of Jan. 11 in New York’s U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
A coalition of environmentalists, soccer moms and organized labor claim the 1996 RF standard may not adequately protect the 60 million mobile phone subscribers from brain cancer and other maladies because the new guidelines-which are stricter than previous ones-do not account for any possible non-thermal health effects.
