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Contents Greenhouse gases, A 1718 map of Texas by Guillaume de L'Isle Approximate state area highlighted northern areas indefinite, 7 References In June 2001 Tropical Storm Allison dumped up to 40 inches (1,000 mm) of rain on parts of Houston causing what was then the worst flooding in the city's history the storm cost billions of dollars in damage and killed 20 people in Texas by December of the same year Houston-based energy company Enron collapsed into the largest U.S bankruptcy (at that time) a result of being investigated for off-the-books partnerships which were allegedly used to hide debt and inflate profits the company lost no less than $70 billion; . History Determined to control politics in the state reduce competition from Republicans and Populists and close blacks out of politics in 1901 the Democrat-dominated state legislature passed a poll tax as a requirement for voting Given the economic difficulties of the times the poll tax caused participation by African Americans poor whites and Mexican Americans to drop sharply effectively disenfranchising more than one-third of the population of the state. Acrylonitrile - cancer, London seen from St Paul's Cathedral after the German Blitz 29 December 1940. Near the coast the land is low and extremely flat and often marshy the Piney Woods extend into the Northern parts of Southeast Texas reaching as far south as the rice paddies and marshlands that lie between Houston and Beaumont the highest point on the coast is at High Island where a salt dome raises the elevation to around 40 feet (12 m). Houston is largely located within the Northern Humid Gulf Coast Prairies level IV ecoregion (34a) a subset of the Western Gulf coastal grasslands level III region as defined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency This region is generally underlaid by Quaternary-aged sand silts and clays (clay clay loam or sandy clay loam) and covered by grasslands with occasional clusters of oak trees, Another popular somewhat simpler definition defines East Texas as the region between the Trinity River north and east of Houston (or sometimes Interstate 45 when defining generously) as the western border the Louisiana border as the eastern border the Gulf of Mexico as the southern border the Oklahoma border as the northern border Arkansas as the northeastern border and extending as far south as Orange Texas the East Texas regions includes Tyler Longview Lufkin Marshall Palestine Jacksonville Mount Pleasant and Nacogdoches, 146 Halliburton 3.1 Texas Consultation and the Matamoros Expedition 2.2 Climate Italian invasion of Ethiopia (1935).

; Railroads During the late 20th century the Republican Party replaced the Democratic Party as the dominant party in the state as the latter became more politically liberal and as demographic changes favored the former. Houston Texas Business Directory Instead the state collects revenue from property taxes (though these are collected at the county city and school district level; Texas has a state constitutional prohibition against a state property tax) and sales taxes the state sales tax rate is 6.25 percent but local taxing jurisdictions (cities counties special purpose districts and transit authorities) may also impose sales and use tax up to 2 percent for a total maximum combined rate of 8.25 percent.