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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Suppose the city where you live could show up at your house, demand that you dig a giant hole in your driveway or maybe the front ...

Driven by a well-intended commitment to public health, the City of Tacoma has painted itself into a bureaucratic corner that punishes small businesses the city claims to support. Reporter Kristine ...

Jay Yoo had just opened his Philly cheesesteak restaurant in a former Herfy’s Burgers when the same health inspector who had given him the green-light returned three hours later to shut him down. The ...

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 ...

Tacoma can sometimes feel like a place for the little-er guy. Where an aspiring entrepreneur can start a small business without the hyper expensive rents and other daily costs of a city like Seattle.

Following is a transcript of the video. My name is Maurice Patterson. I'm the owner and operator of MMP Environmental Solutions. We are a commercial-grease-trap-cleaning service and waste-management ...

Rochester, N.Y. – Monroe County officials began conducting safety sweeps on grease traps at local businesses Thursday. This comes after a three-year-old boy died last week when he fell into a grease ...

COLUMBIA — Businesses will be able to apply for funding to help cover the cost of installing a grease trap after City Council unanimously approved a rebate program. The program is the last in a series ...

OZARK, Mo. (KY3) - Some business owners in Ozark are complaining about a new service charge on their utility bills for fat, oil and grease (FOG) traps. The City will begin charging the $19.25/month ...

The contraption: a gravity grease interceptor, as big as a Volkswagen Beetle, which goes in the ground and costs a hefty sum. The alternative: a hydromechanical grease interceptor, about the size of a ...