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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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