James, a native of Oconee County, recently found himself laid off from a local plant after punching in for 28 years.
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Her husband, David, was employed at the local Chrysler plant for nearly four decades.
For instance, officials in Wuhan, an industrial city, have given tax breaks to anybody who buys cars made in the local car plant.
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Many Hispanics work at the local meatpacking plant, the largest employer.
Garden centers, nurseries, local native plant societies, county extension service offices, books and the Internet can all be great resources for researching the best, most water-efficient plants.
And I carried that lesson with me all those years ago when I got my start fighting for men and women on the South Side of Chicago after their local steel plant shut down.
Specialty grass nurseries are the best source for local genetic material, and many native plant nurseries grow local clones.
For example, rebuilding the local water treatment plant, but forgetting to fix the electrical grid that powers the facility, should be a fail.
Simply put, the sewage from our homes is combined with the sewers in the street before it is piped to the local sewage treatment plant control.
The campaign, which is part of a wider UK collaboration of conservation organisations, also encourages people to buy British fruit, support local producers and plant fruit trees in their gardens.
In the past few years, Brock and a small group of local historians, plant geneticists, and farmers have reintroduced dozens of heirloom greens and grains, many of them untasted since the eighteen-hundreds.
Jalil Lespert plays Franck, an ambitious young student who comes home from Paris to spend time at the local steel-pressing plant.
You could get a job at the local tobacco or textile plant and still be able to provide for yourself and your family.
Yesterday, we aired a report about how the town of Postville, Iowa, has been affected by an immigration raid at a local meat-processing plant.
In fact, this process is comparable to the use of fertilizers in agriculture, i.e. adding nutrients that are found to be lacking in the local environment to stimulate plant growth, in this case phytoplanckton that form the base of the marine food-chain.
In Todmorden it has its own name -- the 'Incredible Edible' campaign -- and the local authorities are beginning to take notice, giving permission to plant 500 fruit trees around the local sports fields and promising to look for ways to expand the number of allotments available.
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John Huber heads the union's Local 1097 at a Delphi plant in Rochester, New York.
Local media reports suggest the plant has had to cut production because of a reduction in the timber harvest.
The explosion occurred about 3:30 p.m. local time Saturday at a plant in Fukushima, some 100 kilometers north of Tokyo.
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In 1975, at age 25, he left for Indonesia, where he started a scrap-melting steel plant with a local partner.
The government and the utility company, Chubu Electric, had been trying to build this plant, against local opposition, for 37 years.
The space will also see trees and flowers planted and the installation of allotment boxes, where local residents and businesses can plant vegetables.
Having found similar levels of the toxic waste outside the plant, the local government is checking the health of residents in the neighbourhood.
Yet Adair Grain in June 2006 received complaints from local residents about odors from the plant.
In St Louis, Missouri, the Post-Dispatch newspaper reported on local efforts to save the Hazelwood plant.
That will take at least two years and will involve sensitive local negotations over job losses and plant closures.
And when a business showed up with plans to build a new solar plant, hundreds of local workers got jobs because of it.
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Johnson Controls executives agreed but said emissions levels from the plant have been below local and national limits, and that in past years local officials focused on emissions levels, not the quota.
"We are working on four small scale forest projects with local community groups to grow and plant over 1, 000, 000 trees to re-store the tree cover in an area now vulnerable to landslides, " he added.
In Padang, an impoverished industrial town in Sumatra, local officials have simply seized a cement plant that the central government wanted to privatise.
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