`Massachusetts flexible gas piping regulatory approval threat`

2003 attempt by CSST manufacturer's attorneys to threaten the State Plumbing Board with a restraint-of-trade suit; Board, holding Tom's letter, countered with threat of public release. Resulted in Massachusetts's restrictive installation rules.

I ended up writing a letter or an email to the State Plumbing Board, because I'm friends with the chairman of the State Plumbing Board, and he asked me to look at the problem. I looked at their solution of the nail plates, and I said, well, the only way to make it safe is to put a nail plate around the whole thing, which means the only way to make it safe is if you take this flexible tubing and encase it in black iron pipe. Because that's putting a nail plate all the way around it. I wrote that as my letter to the State Plumbing Board.