Housing, work & access barriers

I became extremely sensitive to EMF after PGE put a cellular smart meter on my house. I lost my high paying job, my house and cannot be near cell towers or cell phones anymore. It completely destroyed my life. Regulations have to be put into place. Studies have to be acted on. Corporations cannot be allowed to destroy us.

My name is and I live in New Jersey. I am a former nurse and 67 years old. I was diagnosed with EHS environmental hypersensitivity in 2018 when I moved into a rental after selling my house. Within less than two days I was falling over from dizziness bruised four ribs couldn’t swallow. I was crying filled with anxiety and depression. When two days prior I was perfectly fine. Then more symptoms started appearing, and then I knew that I was being exposed to something. This was not normal and I went to my integrative who had diagnosed me a few years prior with mold illness. A rattle off 17 symptoms and he asked me if I had a smart meter on the building and I said what is that? I’ve never heard of one and I had no idea what it was and he explained and he said go back there and take a look and see if you have one in sure enough I did. I bought a tri meter to test the radiation and I have the videos of it and times out can’t even measure the radiation level. It’s so high. Every meter. Then I came inside to check the dirty energy coming out of the sockets and the radiation is blaring out of them too. Now I’ve got the refrigerator. That’s a smart. I have to have all these boards the circuit boards removed from my appliances because you’re all a bunch of criminals and you’re violating our constitutional rights and we don’t want any part of this nonsense and you’re trying to shove it down our throats. What we’re gonna shove it right back down your throat so that you can choke just as we’re choking. So then they put a smart meter in my house my water authority in my township without my permission and I have opt out for a traditional analog. They’re refusing to give me one and instead they’re threatening to call outreach and social services to do a fully evaluation and intervention so they’d rather lock me up then address the fact that the smart meter they placed in my house now a year and a half ago is caused permanent damage to my hands. I have CRPS the most painful disease known to medicine no cure no treatment so they’ve caused permanent disability in these hands now with that meter and they’ve committed a bias crime because they were in receipt of my doctors letters from 23 when I moved in along with all the medical documentation of the harms that come to people when they’re exposed to this radiation and that there’s never been long-term safety studies of 10 to 15 years because or lousy government, all of you three letter agencies, you know what you’re doing and by refusing to do a long-term safety study, which was demanded of you in 2012 which of course you ignored and then you just threw them on all the houses and businesses just sick and everybody because you knew if you did the long-term safety studies it would prove that they were highly unsafe and that they were causing heart attack strokes, cancer‘s birth defects, auto immunity, which is not the body attacking itself. That’s another lie. The medical community got wrong and so anyway it’s the same thing as cannabis you got away with saying there was no medical benefit yeah because you didn’t do the studies so that wasn’t a lie was it? But you harmed a lot of people by keeping it and illegal drug in the same class with heroin when nobody’s ever died or been harmed from cannabis and you also took out patterns in the 60s in the 70s on different properties within the cannabis plant now why would you have done that if there was no medical benefit? That’s fraud corruption. But you put veterans in jail for being picked up in the possession of one joint. One cannabis joint and a brave man that fought for this country the wars you got us into intentionally so you could make money you sacrifice our good decent men and women and then you verify them when they come home you won’t give them support you won’t give me even a small little tiny house and you give them the lousiest medical care that there is on the planet. Thank you veterans for doing the job that nobody else would do and now we’re gonna disrespect you on your way back home. These things are not safe and I’m living the proof because my blood pressure from this smart meter they put in my house a little over a year ago is spiking my BP up to 150/110 and like BP along with the permanent damage to my hands through the nervous system, which all this dirty energy is known to constantly irritate and that’s why I can’t have them in her on my house and so my township is in violation of my rights, the law, a whole bunch of laws, HUD and more so where is my free lawyer paid for my tax money. I’m sick of suffering because if you’re a corruption. Everybody’s sick from these meters that’s your answer. The majority of people want these off their houses that’s your answer. Just look at the medical documentation of what this stuff does you don’t need to be taking surveys you’re supposed to be doing your job and these things never should’ve been!

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of a family member and caregiver. Several years ago I and my father tried to stop Penelec from placing a "smartmeter" on our house due to the fact that my father has a pace-maker aiding his heart. I had heard that the RF produced by these meters had been known to cause health emergencies for people so equipped. We were told by the PA utility commission we had to hire a lawyer to fight the installation. Dad did hold back Penelec's effort for awhile, but it was costing tens of thousands of dollars and so he stopped. Penelec installed the meter on our house while we were away from the property. Thirty days later Dad suffered a stroke. He had to use a wheelchair for the remainder of his life.

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of a family member and caregiver. Several years ago I and my father tried to stop Penelec from placing a "smartmeter" on our house due to the fact that my father has a pace-maker aiding his heart. I had heard that the RF produced by these meters had been known to cause health emergencies for people so equipped. We were told by the PA utility commission we had to hire a lawyer to fight the installation. Dad did hold back Penelec's effort for awhile, but it was costing tens of thousands of dollars and so he stopped. Penelec installed the meter on our house while we were away from the property. Thirty days later Dad suffered a stroke. He had to use a wheelchair for the remainder of his life.

My family is desperate to make sure we do not live near 5G towers. We purchased a home in 2021 and moved from out of state . We started getting headaches and a general feeling of not well. We learned we had two local towers in front and behind us. We sold and move to the country nine months later with no towers in sight. The unwell issues stopped. If we had stayed who knows the long term affects this would have caused us. It would probably be news worthy 20 years from now after people and the environment all show the damage! We need our elected officials to stop this now. Where’s our EPA with this issue and the Weather Modification in our Skies showering who knows what metals and chemicals upon us and our environment! Our bees are disappearing… This is critical!

Hello, Thank you for giving me this opportunity to submit testimony about the harmful effects of EMF radiation. I am preparing to do battle with National Grid, even as I write. About 6 weeks ago they installed a data-collection antenna on top of the pole directly outside my house, and outside my bedroom window. They told me that the antenna was not active yet, but immediately my sleep started to suffer. I woke up five or six times a night, and eventually, by 2 AM, I couldn't get back to sleep at all. It took me a while to figure out what was going on. I have an EMF reader, an Accoustimeter, and although I was getting a continual reading from the pole --- INSIDE my house --- it wasn't super high. But what was happening was that, every hour, about 10 minutes past the hour, the antenna emits 10 -15 very high pulses, and that is what keeps waking me up. I can't sleep in the room at all anymore. I have moved to the other end of the house, and sleep on the living room couch! I am, of course furious. I am going to make life hell for them at National Grid until they do something about it. I would also like to mention that 15 years ago I was living in another part of the state, in a more urban environment, with my mother and sister. We knew absolutely nothing about EMFs, and none of us even had a cell phone. Completely without our knowledge or consent, the town installed a smart meter on our home, replacing the old analog meter. My mother and sister started to complain about sleep problems around that time, but we couldn't figure out what might be causing it, and decided that the problem was a difficult family situation at the time. I don't think so any longer. In two years, they were both dead, from very aggressive, sudden-onset cancers. I am convinced that the EMF exposure killed them. Believe me, EMF exposure causes insomnia, and it causes cancer.

Hello, Thank you for giving me this opportunity to submit testimony about the harmful effects of EMF radiation. I am preparing to do battle with National Grid, even as I write. About 6 weeks ago they installed a data-collection antenna on top of the pole directly outside my house, and outside my bedroom window. They told me that the antenna was not active yet, but immediately my sleep started to suffer. I woke up five or six times a night, and eventually, by 2 AM, I couldn't get back to sleep at all. It took me a while to figure out what was going on. I have an EMF reader, an Accoustimeter, and although I was getting a continual reading from the pole --- INSIDE my house --- it wasn't super high. But what was happening was that, every hour, about 10 minutes past the hour, the antenna emits 10 -15 very high pulses, and that is what keeps waking me up. I can't sleep in the room at all anymore. I have moved to the other end of the house, and sleep on the living room couch! I am, of course furious. I am going to make life hell for them at National Grid until they do something about it. I would also like to mention that 15 years ago I was living in another part of the state, in a more urban environment, with my mother and sister. We knew absolutely nothing about EMFs, and none of us even had a cell phone. Completely without our knowledge or consent, the town installed a smart meter on our home, replacing the old analog meter. My mother and sister started to complain about sleep problems around that time, but we couldn't figure out what might be causing it, and decided that the problem was a difficult family situation at the time. I don't think so any longer. In two years, they were both dead, from very aggressive, sudden-onset cancers. I am convinced that the EMF exposure killed them. Believe me, EMF exposure causes insomnia, and it causes cancer.

Hello, Thank you for giving me this opportunity to submit testimony about the harmful effects of EMF radiation. I am preparing to do battle with National Grid, even as I write. About 6 weeks ago they installed a data-collection antenna on top of the pole directly outside my house, and outside my bedroom window. They told me that the antenna was not active yet, but immediately my sleep started to suffer. I woke up five or six times a night, and eventually, by 2 AM, I couldn't get back to sleep at all. It took me a while to figure out what was going on. I have an EMF reader, an Accoustimeter, and although I was getting a continual reading from the pole --- INSIDE my house --- it wasn't super high. But what was happening was that, every hour, about 10 minutes past the hour, the antenna emits 10 -15 very high pulses, and that is what keeps waking me up. I can't sleep in the room at all anymore. I have moved to the other end of the house, and sleep on the living room couch! I am, of course furious. I am going to make life hell for them at National Grid until they do something about it. I would also like to mention that 15 years ago I was living in another part of the state, in a more urban environment, with my mother and sister. We knew absolutely nothing about EMFs, and none of us even had a cell phone. Completely without our knowledge or consent, the town installed a smart meter on our home, replacing the old analog meter. My mother and sister started to complain about sleep problems around that time, but we couldn't figure out what might be causing it, and decided that the problem was a difficult family situation at the time. I don't think so any longer. In two years, they were both dead, from very aggressive, sudden-onset cancers. I am convinced that the EMF exposure killed them. Believe me, EMF exposure causes insomnia, and it causes cancer.

Hello, Thank you for giving me this opportunity to submit testimony about the harmful effects of EMF radiation. I am preparing to do battle with National Grid, even as I write. About 6 weeks ago they installed a data-collection antenna on top of the pole directly outside my house, and outside my bedroom window. They told me that the antenna was not active yet, but immediately my sleep started to suffer. I woke up five or six times a night, and eventually, by 2 AM, I couldn't get back to sleep at all. It took me a while to figure out what was going on. I have an EMF reader, an Accoustimeter, and although I was getting a continual reading from the pole --- INSIDE my house --- it wasn't super high. But what was happening was that, every hour, about 10 minutes past the hour, the antenna emits 10 -15 very high pulses, and that is what keeps waking me up. I can't sleep in the room at all anymore. I have moved to the other end of the house, and sleep on the living room couch! I am, of course furious. I am going to make life hell for them at National Grid until they do something about it. I would also like to mention that 15 years ago I was living in another part of the state, in a more urban environment, with my mother and sister. We knew absolutely nothing about EMFs, and none of us even had a cell phone. Completely without our knowledge or consent, the town installed a smart meter on our home, replacing the old analog meter. My mother and sister started to complain about sleep problems around that time, but we couldn't figure out what might be causing it, and decided that the problem was a difficult family situation at the time. I don't think so any longer. In two years, they were both dead, from very aggressive, sudden-onset cancers. I am convinced that the EMF exposure killed them. Believe me, EMF exposure causes insomnia, and it causes cancer.

I had a gizmo put into my electric box so that I could turn off circuits at night. It helped me sleep and my SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth) got better. Then it stopped working and the guy who sold it to me would not honor the warranty. My SIBO returned and my sleep got worse. Since then I have put in a Blueshield. Gradually my SIBO is improving and I am sleeping better but not great. During this time Delmarva put in a smart meter against my will. Also the number of antennae in the area where I live keeps getting higher and higher. When I first moved here, there were hardly any antennae. But now there are 124 within a three mile range! I need to move.