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Mama Mia! NYC rules crack down on coal, wood-fired pizzerias — must cut carbon emissions up to 75%

Mamma Mia!

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.

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%.

“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 rule could require pizzerias with such ovens installed prior to May 2016 to buy pricey emission-control devices — with the owner of one Brooklyn joint saying he’s already tossed $20,000 on an air filter system in anticipation of the new mandate.

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6 thoughts on “Mama Mia! NYC rules crack down on coal, wood-fired pizzerias — must cut carbon emissions up to 75%”

  1. Let’s ban cigarettes. Where does all the smoke go from the millions and millions of cigarettes burned in this country daily?

    1. Less than 20% of the country smokes cigs. Folks are smoking other things now, which is a NEW revenue generator. Not going to git rid of anything that makes new $$$$$ for the gubernut.

      NYC exodus continues. Eventually an island city that becomes a prison, a la Escape from NY!

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