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NYC to Crack Down on Wood-Fired Pizza Joints to Reduce Carbon Emissions by Up to 75%

First gas stoves, now wood-fired ovens.

New York City will be cracking down on wood-fired pizza joints to reduce carbon emissions by up to 75%.


“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,” Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Ted Timbers said in a statement to the New York Post on Sunday. “This common-sense rule, developed with restaurant and environmental justice groups, requires a professional review of whether installing emission controls is feasible.”

According to the New York Post, some restaurateurs are currently negotiating with DEP officials.

Iconic pizzerias known for their wood-fired pizzas such as Grimaldis, Arturo’s, Lombardi’s, and others may be exempt from the mandate. [b][i]Their wood must come from the wooden heads of democrats![/i][/b]
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SW-User
Of course you left out the crucial detail that less than 100 pizzerias would be impacted - those who didn’t have the good sense to see this coming and buy a heavily subsidized air filter like the vast majority have done.

THEY are COMING for YOUR RIGHT as Americans to breathe toxic, heavily polluted particulate laden air from the few remaining places that haven’t moved into the 21st century.

Learn to Cope.
Budwick · 70-79, M
@SW-User [quote]you left out the crucial detail that less than 100 pizzerias would be impacted[/quote]

So, it's ok to treat small numbers of people unfairly?
SW-User
@Budwick Nothing unfair about it. They knew this was coming, they need to get with the program. And you can color that any way you like.
Budwick · 70-79, M
@SW-User [quote]Nothing unfair about it. [/quote]

That's why a handful of pizzarias are exempt, eh