The New York City Department of Environmental Protection cites grease as a major cause of back-ups in its 6,000 miles of sewers lines. The back-ups can lead to sewage entering homes and businesses, ...

Every night, an employee at Eda Johnson’s new restaurant in the Stadium District dons a mask and heads downstairs to a storage room with a clipboard and a pen. The mission is to scrape the gunk out of ...

Behind a market in southwest Houston on Tuesday, Elton Childs and his crew dragged the cover off a grease trap and used a vacuum to suck brown, putrid sludge out of the hole. The 900-gallon grease ...

The death on Monday of a Rochester 3-year-old who fell into an unsecured grease trap outside a Tim Hortons restaurant reveals a startling lack of state or local safety regulations related to the ...

Restaurant owners are asking town officials for more time to install costly grease-trap systems required under a new regulation meant to prevent municipal sewers from ...

Tacoma restaurant owners say the city’s rules on grease traps are costing them time and money, stifling development and ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Saying the city has had to pay a hefty bill to repair its sewerage system, Mayor of Montego Bay Councillor Richard Vernon is adamant that all future plans submitted for ...