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, ...

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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 ...

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 ...