Bill > S577

This bill aims to protect public health and reduce health care costs in Massachusetts. It requires the Department of Public Health to create an assessment tool to quantify the health impacts and costs of emissions from grid electricity, delivered fuels, and the benefits of energy conservation, efficiency, and renewable energy. The tool will analyze factors such as particulate matter, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, carbon, carbon dioxide, and mercury emissions, and their impact on measures of health status, including premature death, cardiovascular events, chronic bronchitis, asthma, and developmental/neurological problems. The department must update the tool every 3 years and ensure that any new or revised policy, regulation, or program that impacts polluting emissions explicitly factors in the tool's output on health incidents and cost savings.

Agriculture and Natural Resources, Health and Social Services

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S577