Article: Pollution Fines Force Fort Bend County, Texas, Environmental Panelist to Quit.

By Janet Elliott, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 3--AUSTIN, Texas--Fort Bend County businesswoman Teri Mathis resigned Tuesday from a state environmental panel after it was reported that she owed the state $10,000 in pollution fines.

Gov. Rick Perry didn't know that Mathis had been accused of violating wastewater disposal laws when he reappointed her last year to a council that awards research grants and contracts for on-site wastewater treatment.

Mathis initially was appointed to the Texas On-Site Wastewater Treatment Research Council in 1996 by then-Gov. George W. Bush. She is the 11-member council's ...

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