“All New Yorkers deserve to breathe healthy air and wood and coal-fired stoves are among the largest contributors of harmful pollutants in neighborhoods with poor air quality,” DEP spokesman Ted Timbers said in a statement Sunday. “This common-sense rule, developed with restaurant and environmental justice groups, requires a professional review of whether installing emission controls is feasible.”
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has drafted new rules that would order eateries using the decades-old baking method to slice carbon emissions by up to 75%. Historic Big Apple pizza joints could be forced to dish out mounds of dough under a proposed city edict targeting pollutant-spewing coal-and-wood-fired ovens, The Post has learned. NYC ‘Pizza Alliance’ formed to toss City Hall’s effort in cracking down against coal-, wood-fired ovens NYC official defends his war on coal, wood-fired polluting pizzeriasĪrchaeologists find ancient Pompeii fresco showing possible pizza ‘ancestor’ DeSantis torches NYC’s proposed crackdown on coal-fired ovens: ‘They just want to control’