Man shouts: “Give us pizza or give us death!” in response to NYC new rules crack down on coal-, wood-fired pizzerias — stating they must cut carbon emissions 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

Pizza store owners claim that If you mess around with the temperature in the oven you change the taste. The pipe, the chimney, it’s that size to create the perfect updraft, keeps the temp perfect, it’s an art as much as a science. You take away the char, the thing that makes the pizza taste great.