Investments in AI, data centers, and smart city dashboards are intended to support data-based decision making.

Legislatures and the public require real-time access to accurate data about reports of harm, injury and disability when considering infrastructure and device decisions. This includes all of the wireless safety bills not passed in Massachusetts for over a decade.

As CT Senator Blumenthal noted in 2019 regarding lack of health and safety research for 5G, “we’re flying blind.”  Data documenting harm has never been collected.

Following the 2010 deadly San Bruno gas explosion in CA, an administrative law judge released emails between the CPUC and PGE to the public. The emails reveal that PCUC President Michael Peevey knew back in 2010 that smart meters were causing harm, but that the industry hired consulting firms Navigant and Structure to bury the story.

The Commonwealth is now deploying next-generation smart meters.  

In MA DPU 2014 12-76-B, the Commonwealth relied on the opinion of a mercenary scientist and grossly misrepresented the regulation of the non-thermal effects of non-ionizing radiation.  MA then hired Navigant to spin the results of the Worcester National Grid smart meter pilot, which did not monitor health, rendering cost-benefit analysis inaccurate, and introducing the risk of stranded assets for MA ratepayers.

The smart meter bills note an Emergency Preamble Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to maintain public health, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health.”

Please pass with urgency:  

H.2413 An Act recognizing EMS as a disease dangerous to the public health, requiring inclusion in MAVEN, establishing the Massachusetts EMS registry and requiring biennial reporting as part of population health trends

and Senate.2306 An Act relative to smart meters and House 3551 An Act relative to smart meters

Focus on safety first should be the Legislature’s highest priority.