Most of the time, the windowless building with the dome-shaped roof will be a typical high school gymnasium filled with cheering fans watching basketball and volleyball games.
Ramit Plushnick-Masti AP Writer Houston — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has officially overturned a 16-year-old Texas air permitting program EPA officials say violates the Clean Air Act, leaving some of the country’s largest refineries in limbo. The move comes ...
Ramit Plushnick-Masti AP Writer Houston — The Environmental Protection Agency has moved to end a long-running dispute with Texas over how the state regulates emissions, including cancer-causing toxins such as benzene and butadiene, from dozens of refineries that produce a ...
Hope Yen AP Writer Washington — Five states — New York, California, Texas, Arizona and Florida — are perilously close to losing out on congressional seats because of lackluster participation in the U.S. census. The five were average or below ...
Developer Jeff Blackard’s Adriatica project in McKinney, Texas, shown Aug. 11, is designed to resemble a Croatian Village. So far, the development has about a dozen single-family homes and a row of businesses and shops. AP Photos by Donna McWilliam ...
Juan A. Lozano AP Writer Houston — Texas is embarking on the biggest coastal protection effort in state history to fight beach erosion and defend against hurricanes. The $135.4 million plan comes a year after Hurricane Ike’s storm surge damaged ...
Betsy Blaney AP Writer Lubbock, TX — A little prairie grouse could give the wind energy industry big fits. Should the lesser prairie chicken become listed as threatened or endangered — and it’s close now — there would be significant ...
Juan A. Lozano AP Writer Galveston, TX — It has been dubbed the “Ike Dike” — a 55-mile barrier, 17 feet high, that would be built along the Texas Gulf Coast to fend off the sort of devastating flooding inflicted ...
Juan A. Lozano AP Writer Galveston, TX — Another hurricane season is the last thing Galveston wants to think about after last year’s devastation from Hurricane Ike. “Hurricane season got here a lot quicker than I thought it would,” said ...