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 ...

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 ...

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 ...