plant
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California has cleaned up lead-contaminated soil at thousands of homes in neighborhoods surrounding a shuttered battery recycling plant in southeast L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
The plant, to be located in Fort Worth, Texas, would have the capacity to build tens of thousands of aircraft each year, Wing said Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Turkey is planning to open its first nuclear power plant at Akkuyu on the Mediterranean coast with the first reactor scheduled to be online by the year's end, Bayraktar said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
North Carolina's blueberry growers are facing an emerging threat from a destructive beetle whose larvae feed underground, damaging plant roots and potentially killing blueberry bushes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
When the smoke cleared at the plant, the entire roof and top third of the reactor 1 building had been reduced to a smoking steel skeleton.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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A lush landscape of 6,000 native plants sits atop the 101 overpass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
That is comparable to the combined yearly electricity production of roughly 130 continuously operating nuclear power plants, each with a capacity of about one gigawatt.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Hackers have exploited weaknesses in internet-connected controls to wreak havoc on water utilities, networking devices and power plants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
"When you catch the scent of the truffle, when the dog starts digging, and he plants himself there and doesn't give up... it gives you goosebumps."
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
Ms. Andrews’s eyebrows rise, and she kind of leans into her jungle of plants like they’re backing her up on this meeting.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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Previous Welsh governments under Labour had started funding its work, which included the tree-planting scheme around Mbale in the Mount Elgon region of eastern Uganda, with 25 million trees planted as of 2025.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
To her, the word rehabilitation seems painfully inadequate: "How can a life built over decades be uprooted and planted somewhere else?" she asks.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
"Lots of people planted vegetable gardens. We ate whatever was available. Well, thank God, we're here now," the 29-year-old added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
In a light summer drizzle, Chris and I planted the sequoia a few dozen yards from the other tree.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
I bolted down the hall, clutching Fig against my thundering chest, and planted myself in front of the TV.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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That means we can start the planting at the base.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
That made planting a sequoia an act of radical optimism, something I hadn’t felt in a long time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Sustainability may have been a focus for the Lucas gardens — the museum’s website trumpets solar panels on the roof and a rainwater irrigation system — but its planting choices have room for improvement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Since 2021, the National Trust said it had planted 125,000 trees and created 35 hectares of woodland and 52 hectares of wood pasture, with another 77 hectares of tree planting currently being designed.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
They creaked through rolling hills dotted with apple orchards stripped bare, past fields of brown earth awaiting the planting of oats and wheat.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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