Iconic NYC pizzeria out of hundreds of thousands of dollars due to oven ban

Fox Business ^ | 3/17/24 | Fox Business

[DallasBiff]

John's of Bleecker Street general manager Kevin Jackson details changes the pizzeria must make to comply with new green energy regulations. #FOXBusiness

[Wallace T.]

If the states were to break up, New York, California, and Massachusetts will become the Venezuelas of North America. It is not inconceivable that if there were a division, there would be a Berlin Wall running along the eastern borders of California, Oregon, and Washington, and along the Ohio and Pennsylvania border, extending to the Pennsylvania and West Virginia border, then following the Potomac to Chesapeake Bay. You will find leftists newly fond of walls, just like Walter Ulbricht and Nikita Khrushchev were back in the day.

[BobL]

“When does stuff like this start encroaching on the “Takings” clause in the Constitution?”

When enough REPUBLICANS figure out that VOTING, rather than bitching and letting the Democrat win is in the interest of enforcing the Constitution.

[Joe Boucher]

Close up shop in N.Y.And come on down to Florida.
We can Always use another good pizza joint and we are not high tax regulated like crazy here

[minnesota_bound]

A little coal dust as a pizza topping is tasty.

[HenpeckedCon]

As much of a lunatic my governor Ned Lamont is, he replied when asked about banning coal fired pizza... “over my dead body!”

[DAC21]

“Close up shop in N.Y.And come on down to Florida.
We can Always use another good pizza joint and we are not high tax regulated like crazy here.

I have heard on many occasions that NYC Pizza is “the best” due to NYC tap water. If there is any truth to that it may not be so easy to just pick up and move and keep the same quality pie.

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/new-york-water-bagels-pizza

[GenXPolymath]

This is about particulate matter emissions and NOx and SOx all three are real pollutants. Every other source of those emissions in the densely packed NYC area has already had to clean up their emissions via catalysts or stack bag houses and electrostatic precipitators. Power plants, diesel generators, and trucks busses and cars all must filter their exhaust to take 99% of those very real pollutants out.

These ovens are burning raw coal directly to the sky a practice best left in the 1800s. People who live in the area are breathing raw coal particulates every day in the exhaust which is just above street level it’s not like they have 100+ foot stacks. I love the original John’s on B street it’s a regular stop of mine when I spend weeks at a time in NYC usually midtown Manhattan area.

The city finally said ok just like everyone else you need to filter your stack emissions for particulate 2.5micron or smaller ,and not release NOx or SOx above a few ppm levels. Those are consistent with the limits set for other bulk emitters. The solution is not hard coal power plants use large versions of the system to clean up their emissions. A wet electrostatic precipitator with limestone or gypsum acid gas trap below the ESP to turn the nitric and sulfuric acid liquid into calcium nitrate or calcium sulfate. No one in any first world city is allowed to directly burn coal to the sky anymore this is not 1890 Elizabethan London. This has nothing to do with CO2 or climate change those three actual emissions cause real measurable respiratory harm, acid rains plus smog.The City didn’t say you can’t burn coal they said if you burn coal the output of your stacks must meet the air quality standard for every other bulk emitters. So the choice is add ESP equipment or switch fuels to a SOx,NOx free fuel such as natural gas or propane. Wood still makes copious amounts of particulate matter emissions and NOx as well here again ESPs clean it up to 90+% reductions.