Texas Panel Reduces Criminal Fire Sentence Over Definition Of ‘Treated Lumber’

Mealey's (July 27, 2022, 2:16 PM EDT) -- FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas state appellate panel on July 14 remanded a case with orders to reduce a man’s misdemeanor criminal sentence after he was found guilty of the illegal outdoor burning of potentially toxic waste, finding that there was insufficient evidence that the plywood the officers saw him burning was “chemical waste.”...