A view of a Yucca plant spattered with crude oil atop a 80-foot high hill south of the site of an oil spill from the Keystone pipeline, near Washington, Kansas, U.S November 15, 2022. Erwin Seba/REUTERS 

A man wearing a protective face mask, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, shops at the Sky Village Swap Meet in Yucca Valley, California, U.S., January 29, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton 

A man wearing a protective face mask, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, shops at the Sky Village Swap Meet in Yucca Valley, California, U.S., January 29, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton 

A man wearing a protective face mask, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, shops at the Sky Village Swap Meet in Yucca Valley, California, U.S., January 29, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton 

A sculpture, titled “unwanted Christ", by Antone Martin is seen at Desert Christ Park during sunset in Yucca Valley, California, U.S., January 28, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton 

A man wearing a protective face mask walks, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, outside The End boutique shop in Yucca Valley, California, U.S., January 28, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton 

A woman sales 'Casabe', a kind of a flatbread made of yucca, next to a sign reading 'Sale point, cash and barter' near a road in Cupira, Venezuela May 25, 2019. Picture taken May 25, 2019. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado 

Packages of 'casabe', a kind of a flatbread made of yucca, are displayed next to signs reading "There is sale point" and "Barters are made" near a road in Cupira, Venezuela June 1, 2019. Picture taken June 1, 2019. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado 

A sign that reads "Barters are accepted" is seen at the porch of a house selling Casabe, a flatbread made of yucca, in Cupira, Venezuela December 16, 2018. REUTERS/Marco Bello 

Workers load sacks of yucca into a truck during a stop on the road to pick up merchandise near Coloncito, Venezuela January 29, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins SEARCH "LAWLESS ROADS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.? 

Yucca flour is displayed at the Quinta Carmelita store, producers of natural and vegan products, in San Salvador, El Salvador February 6, 2018. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas 

A woman manipulates dehydrated yucca at the Quinta Carmelita store, producers of natural and vegan products, in San Salvador, El Salvador February 6, 2018. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas 

A woman manipulates dehydrated yucca at the Quinta Carmelita store, producers of natural and vegan products, in San Salvador, El Salvador February 6, 2018. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas 

A man buys yucca at a street market in Caracas, Venezuela November 3, 2017. Picture taken November 3, 2017. REUTERS/Marco Bello 

A scorched yucca plant stands alone in pasture burned by wildfires near Higgins, Texas, U.S., March 12, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson SEARCH "HIGGINS WILDFIRE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

A family leave their yucca plantation as residents flee at El Castano village in the town of Caluco, El Salvador September 26, 2016. About 15 families took refuge in a shelter after leaving their homes due to death threats from barrio 18 gang members. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas 

When children began fainting at a Catholic-run school in a poor neighbourhood of Venezuela's capital Caracas, teachers set out to discover what was happening. They asked the 478 kindergarten and primary schoolchildren to draw or describe their most recent meals and also what they expected to eat next. The responses were shocking. Some had gone without breakfast and were also skipping other meals, or expecting to eat only bread, yucca or the local staple "arepa", a form of cornmeal flatbread. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso SEARCH "CHILDREN HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY Matching text VENEZUELA-SCHOOLCHIDREN/

A drawing made during a lesson at a school shows what a student ate during the course of a day in Caracas, Venezuela July 14, 2016. The student wrote, "Today and yesterday I ate bread for breakfast; yesterday I had sardine with yucca, butter and water for lunch and had nothing for dinner." The student said that lasagna and cake were their favourite food. Picture taken July 14, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso SEARCH "CHILDREN HUNGER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

A parched yucca is seen in a garden in Porterville, California October 14, 2014. In one of the towns hardest hit by California's drought, the only way some residents can get water to flush the toilet is to drive to the fire station, hand-pump water into barrels and take it back home. The state's three-year drought comes into sharp focus in Tulare County, the dairy and citrus heart of the state's vast agricultural belt, where more than 500 wells have dried up. Picture taken October 14, 2014. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)

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USA-NUCLEAR/YUCCA - Feature graphic with 3D illustrations and diagrams explaining the shelved Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility. Recent events in Japan have revived debate on the project. RNGS. (SIN04) 

USA-NUCLEAR/YUCCA - Feature graphic with 3D illustrations and diagrams explaining the shelved Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility. Recent events in Japan have revived debate on the project. RNGS. (SIN04) 

The charred remains of a yucca plant is seen amongst Christmas decorations on a T-rail barrier placed to protect homes from possible flash floods, where homes were destroyed and cars washed away after the 251-square-mile 2009 Station fire denuded the mountains above of natural vegetation in La Canada Flintridge, California, December 21, 2010. Southern California is bracing for what forecasters say will be the heaviest in a series storms that have inundated the region for a week. REUTERS/David McNew (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY) 

Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) takes questions from reporters following a roundtable discussion on the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository, at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in Nevada January 16, 2008. Yucca Mountain is about 90 miles (145 km) northwest of Las Vegas. REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA) 

A woman wears a shirt with the image of U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) as Clinton hosts a roundtable discussion on the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, January 16, 2008. Yucca Mountain is about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA) 

U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) listens to a speaker during a roundtable discussion on the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada January 16, 2008. Yucca Mountain is about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA) 

U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) gestures to a speaker during a roundtable discussion on the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, January 16, 2008. Yucca Mountain is about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA) 

U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) hosts a roundtable discussion on the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, January 16, 2008. Yucca Mountain is about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA) 

U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) (2nd R) hosts a roundtable discussion on the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada January 16, 2008. Yucca Mountain is about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA) 

Former Nevada Congressman James Bilbray (L, standing) gives an introduction for U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) (R) during a roundtable discussion on the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada January 16, 2008. Monica Brett, a Community College of Southern Nevada adjunct political science professor, listens at center. Yucca Mountain is about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA) 

U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) (L) greets supporters following a roundtable discussion on the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, January 16, 2008. Yucca Mountain is about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA) 

U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks during a roundtable discussion on the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada January 16, 2008. Yucca Mountain is about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA) 

US Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) assures local reporters of her opposition to the Yucca Mountain project after a roundtable discussion at Bertha Miranda's Mexican Restaurant in Reno January 12, 2008. REUTERS/Max Whittaker (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA) 

California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert Lewin, operation chief for Sawtooth, tour areas damaged by wildfire on a helicopter in Yucca Valley, California, July 17, 2006. The Southern California wildfire that has blackened more than 70,000 acres (28,000 hectares) was expected to spare a popular mountain resort town, officials said on Saturday. Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency for San Bernardino County as a result of the wildfires. REUTERS/Ric Francis/Pool (UNITED STATES) 

California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert Lewin, operation chief for Sawtooth, tour areas damaged by wildfire on a helicopter in Yucca Valley, California, July 17, 2006. The Southern California wildfire that has blackened more than 70,000 acres (28,000 hectares) was expected to spare a popular mountain resort town, officials said on Saturday. Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency for San Bernardino County as a result of the wildfires. 

California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks during a news conference after touring areas damaged by wildfire in Yucca Valley, California, July 17, 2006. The Southern California wildfire that has blackened more than 70,000 acres (28,000 hectares) was expected to spare a popular mountain resort town, officials said on Saturday. Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency for San Bernardino County as a result of the wildfires. REUTERS/Ric Francis/Pool (UNITED STATES) 

California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger examines the remains of a home owned by Jim Brock (R) while touring areas damaged by wildfire in Yucca Valley, California, July 17, 2006. The Southern California wildfire that has blackened more than 70,000 acres (28,000 hectares) was expected to spare a popular mountain resort town, officials said on Saturday. Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency for San Bernardino County as a result of the wildfires. REUTERS/Ric Francis/Pool (UNITED STATES) 

California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger examines the remains of a home owned by David Morrow (2nd R) while touring areas damaged by wildfire in Yucca Valley, California, July 17, 2006. The Southern California wildfire that has blackened more than 70,000 acres (28,000 hectares) was expected to spare a popular mountain resort town, officials said on Saturday. Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency for San Bernardino County as a result of the wildfires. REUTERS/Ric Francis/Pool (UNITED STATES) 

California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger tours areas damaged by wildfire on a helicopter in Yucca Valley, California, July 17, 2006. The Southern California wildfire that has blackened more than 70,000 acres (28,000 hectares) was expected to spare a popular mountain resort town, officials said on Saturday. Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency for San Bernardino County as a result of the wildfires. REUTERS/Ric Francis/Pool (UNITED STATES) 

California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger examines the remains of a home owned by David Morrow (R) while touring areas damaged by wildfire in Yucca Valley, California, July 17, 2006. The Southern California wildfire that has blackened more than 70,000 acres (28,000 hectares) was expected to spare a popular mountain resort town, officials said on Saturday. Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency for San Bernardino County as a result of the wildfires. REUTERS/Ric Francis/Pool (UNITED STATES) 

California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger examines the remains of a home owned by Jim Brock (R) while touring areas damaged by wildfire in Yucca Valley, California, July 17, 2006. The Southern California wildfire that has blackened more than 70,000 acres (28,000 hectares) was expected to spare a popular mountain resort town, officials said on Saturday. Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency for San Bernardino County as a result of the wildfires. REUTERS/Ric Francis/Pool (UNITED STATES) 

California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger examines the remains of a home owned by Jim Brock (L) while touring areas damaged by wildfire in Yucca Valley, California, July 17, 2006. The Southern California wildfire that has blackened more than 70,000 acres (28,000 hectares) was expected to spare a popular mountain resort town, officials said on Saturday. Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency for San Bernardino County as a result of the wildfires. REUTERS/Ric Francis/Pool (UNITED STATES) 

California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (C) signs autographs for fire-fighters with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in New Mexico after touring areas damaged by the wildfire in the Yucca Valley, California, July 17, 2006. The Southern California wildfire that has blackened more than 70,000 acres (28,000 hectares) was expected to spare a popular mountain resort town, officials said on Saturday. Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency for San Bernardino County as a result of the wildfires. REUTERS/Ric Francis/Pool (UNITED STATES) 

Residents from Yucca Valley and Morongo Valley watch the Sawtooth fire in the hills of Morongo Valley, California, July 13, 2006. REUTERS/Gene Blevins (UNITED STATES) 

Smoke rises from a wildfire burning out of control in the Yucca Valley and Morongo Valley area in California July 12, 2006. The fire, which officials believe was started on Sunday by lightning and whipped through bone dry brush by hot desert winds, was burning in the Yucca Valley area north of the resort city of Palm Springs. REUTERS/Gene Blevins (UNITED STATES) 

Fire-fighting personnel get ready to tackle a wildfire burning out of control in the Yucca Valley and Morongo Valley area in California July 12, 2006. The fire, which officials believe was started on Sunday by lightning and whipped through bone dry brush by hot desert winds, was burning in the Yucca Valley area north of the resort city of Palm Springs. REUTERS/Gene Blevins (UNITED STATES) 

Smoke rises from a wildfire burning out of control in the Yucca Valley and Morongo Valley area in California July 11, 2006. The fire, which officials believe was started on Sunday by lightning and whipped through bone dry brush by hot desert winds, was burning in the Yucca Valley area north of the resort city of Palm Springs. Picture taken July 11. REUTERS/Gene Blevins (UNITED STATES) 

An airtanker makes a drop on a wildfire burning out of control in the Yucca Valley and Morongo Valley area in California July 11, 2006. The fire, which officials believe was started on Sunday by lightning and whipped through bone dry brush by hot desert winds, was burning in the Yucca Valley area north of the resort city of Palm Springs. Picture taken July 11. REUTERS/Gene Blevins (UNITED STATES) 

A wildfire burns out of control in the Yucca Valley and Morongo Valley area in California July 11, 2006. The fire, which officials believe was started on Sunday by lightning and whipped through bone dry brush by hot desert winds, was burning in the Yucca Valley area north of the resort city of Palm Springs. Picture taken July 11. REUTERS/Gene Blevins (UNITED STATES) 

A wildfire burns out of control in the Yucca Valley and Morongo Valley area in California July 11, 2006. The fire, which officials believe was started on Sunday by lightning and whipped through bone dry brush by hot desert winds, was burning in the Yucca Valley area north of the resort city of Palm Springs. Picture taken July 11. REUTERS/Gene Blevins (UNITED STATES) 

A wildfire burns out of control in the Yucca Valley and Morongo Valley area in California July 12, 2006. The fire, which officials believe was started on Sunday by lightning and whipped through bone dry brush by hot desert winds, was burning in the Yucca Valley area north of the resort city of Palm Springs. REUTERS/Gene Blevins (UNITED STATES) 

Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry speaks to teachers, parents and local community leaders durng a conversation about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility in Nevada, at the Ralph Cadwallader Middle School in Las Vegas, August 10, 2004. REUTERS/Mike Segar US ELECTION MS/GN 

Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry speaks to teachers, parents and local community leaders durng a conversation about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility in Nevada, at the Ralph Cadwallader Middle School in Las Vegas, August 10, 2004. REUTERS/Mike Segar US ELECTION MS/GN 

Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham (R), Senator Orin Hatch R-UT (C)
and Senator Robert Bennett R-UT (L) listen to a reporters question
outside of the White House in Washington, July 8, 2002. The Senators
had been given a letter outlining that the nations' nuclear waste would
end up in Utah if the plan to bury the waste in Navada's Yucca Mountain
was not approved in Congress. REUTERS/William Philpott

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The U.S. Energy Department approved on January 10, 2001 the remote Nevada site of Yucca Mountain as the final resting place for the nation's vast amounts of radioactive waste, a plan immediately opposed by the Senate's top two Democrats. A repository would be built under the mountain, 90 miles from Las Vegas, and would store 70,000 tons of radioactive materials from the nation's nuclear power plants for about 10,000 years. 

Three coca growers walk by a coca plantation near the village of Pozo Azul in Bolivar province in this March 4, 2001 file photo, which was fumigated by a Plan Colombia crop-dusting plane. Backed by $1 billion in mainly U.S. military aid, Colombian President Andres Pastrana's Plan Colombia is meant to destroy the plantations of coca leaf that provide the raw material for most of the world's cocaine. The plane fumigated the coca plants in the village of Pozo Azul, but also sprayed the banana, yucca and maize meant to feed many of the local families.

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A coca grower wearing a DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) hat given to him as a gift from a relative, touches a coca plant near the village of Pozo Azul in Bolivar province, in this March 4, 2001 file photo. The plant was in an area which was sprayed by Plan Colombia crop-dusting planes. Backed by $1 billion in mainly U.S. military aid, President Andres Pastrana's Plan Colombia is meant to destroy the plantations of coca leaf that provide the raw material for most of the world's cocaine. The plane fumigated the coca plants in the village of Pozo Azul, but also sprayed the banana, yucca and maize meant to feed many of the local families.

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TO MATCH WITH STORY BC-AUTOS COLOMBIA-WILLYS - Colombian Luis Carlos Rincon drives his Jeep CJ-5 rebuilt for off-road use through a sand quarry just north of Bogota. U.S.-made Willys and early Jeeps have long been a workhorse in the Colombian countryside, carting plantains, coffee and yucca and more recently has been embraced by Bogota's middle-classes who use their no-frills Willys to go to their weekend homes in the country and hopefully avoid the threat of kidnap by warring Marxist rebels. Picture taken 15APR00.

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TO MATCH WITH STORY BC-AUTOS COLOMBIA-WILLYS - Father and son Colombian motor mechanics Daniel Zorilla (L) and Jose check their Willys CJ-3A with original Go-Devil engine. The pair have some 100 Willys-owning customers. The American icon has long been a workhorse in the Colombian countryside, carting plantains, coffee and yucca and more recently has been embraced by Bogota's middle-classes who use their no-frills Willys to go to their weekend homes in the country and hopefully avoid the threat of kidnap by warring Marxist rebels. Picture taken 31MAY00.

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TO MATCH WITH STORY BC-AUTOS COLOMBIA-WILLYS - Colombia Elias Botero proudly sits in his restored Willys CJ-3A, painted in military colors, during a 4x4 rally just north of Bogota. The American icon has long been a workhorse in the Colombian countryside, carting plantains, coffee and yucca and more recently has been embraced by Bogota's middle-classes who use their no-frills Willys to go to their weekend homes in the country and hopefully avoid the threat of kidnap by warring Marxist rebels. Picture taken 13APR00.

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TO MATCH WITH STORY BC-AUTOS COLOMBIA-WILLYS - This 1950s Willys Jeep CJ-3 is piled high with a dog, ducks, a pig, plants and the contents of almost an entire house, topped with a picture of Jesus Christ in this archive photo taken in Colombia's central coffee-growing region of Quindio. U.S.-made Willys and early Jeeps have long been a workhorse in the Colombian countryside, carting plantains, coffee and yucca and more recently has been embraced by Bogota's middle-classes who use their no-frills Willys to go to their weekend homes in the country and hopefully avoid the threat of kidnap by warring Marxist rebels. Picture taken 15JUL97.

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