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Will Rhode Island track wireless emissions at Pastore Center?
On Feb. 25, the state Department of Environmental Management’s Office of Air Resources held a hearing regarding air pollution control at the Pastore Center. As Cranstonians know, the Pastore Center is a campus in Cranston that encompasses numerous state agencies, such as the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Human Services, the Traffic Tribunal, Labor and Training, the Department of Corrections and the Eleanor Slater Hospital Network.
The sources of air pollution on the Pastore campus that are included in the draft operating permit are: boilers, combustion turbines, non-emergency engines/generators, emergency engines/generators, storage tanks and the central power plant. The types of air pollutants considered include sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and particulates. So far, so good.
What is not generally known is that there is an additional source of air pollution on the Pastore Center Campus that is not included in the operating permit – electromagnetic radiation from wireless infrastructure, such as fixed wireless and 4G LTE and 5G antennas.
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