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, ...

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's strict enforcement of grease-trap requirements for restaurants is creating problems for small business owners, who find the city's rules overly controlling, ambiguous and costly. Suppose the ...

City restaurants get break on grease-trap compliance Eatery owners have lobbied officials for relief from FOG ordinance Nick Kotsopoulos TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF Jan. 23, 2007, 2:11 a.m. ET Keep ...