Plan to slice New York pizza oven emissions by 75% causes backlash

[NYC Liberal]

39. The law isn't about addressing climate change though.

It's about mitigating the health effects caused by the air pollution in and around the stores that are using them.

Emissions from wood smoke, discussed below, can cause coughing, wheezing, asthma attacks, heart attacks, and premature death, among other health effects.1 Many of these pollutants can worsen air quality indoors and outdoors.

• Particle pollution. In some places, wood-burning is the major source of particle pollution.
  
• Carbon monoxide. Wood smoke add to the outdoor levels of carbon monoxide, as well as increasing indoor concentrations
  
• Nitrogen oxides. Nitrogen oxides harm health indoors and outdoors, and helps create particle pollution.
  
• Volatile organic compounds. These gases include harmful pollutants and contribute to creating ozone pollution. Some of these gases are carcinogens, including benzene and formaldehyde.

https://www.lung.org/clean-air/at-home/indoor-air-pollutants/residential-wood-burning