Officials are looking to ban wood and coal-fired ovens in New York City restaurants citing health reasons—a proposal that could severely hit many of the city’s iconic pizzerias.
“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,” Ted Timbers, a spokesperson from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), said in a statement on Sunday, according to a June 25 report by the New York Post. “This common-sense rule, developed with restaurant and environmental justice groups, requires a professional review of whether installing emission controls is feasible.”
