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Nebraskans Worry About Toxic Seed Piles


MEAD, Neb. (DTN) The owners of a small ethanol plant in Mead, Nebraska, that has become an environmental disaster are looking to sell off their adjoining 30,000-head cattle feedyard as the ethanol plant faces state litigation and angry residents.
AltEn LLC, a 24-million-gallon ethanol plant, remains idle and is facing a lawsuit from the state of Nebraska over millions of gallons of toxic water that spilled on Feb. 12-13, 2021, and 84,000 tons of distillers grains from treated corn seed piled on its property that is considered too toxic to feed to animals or spread on fields. The ethanol plant also owes more than $518,000 in back property taxes to Saunders County, Nebraska. ....

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Mead residents demand answers about efforts to clean up AltEn at town hall


Mead AltEn Ethanol plant
A burst pipe late last week in a 4 million gallon digester tank at the AltEn Ethanol plant near Mead sent liquid manure and thin stillage, a byproduct of the ethanol manufacturing process, into waterways and culverts up to 4 miles from the plant.
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Mead AltEn Ethanol plant
Mead AltEn Ethanol plant
A burst pipe late last week in a 4 million gallon digester tank at the AltEn Ethanol plant near Mead sent liquid manure and thin stillage, a byproduct of the ethanol manufacturing process, into waterways and culverts up to 4 miles from the plant.
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Nebraska Scientists Team Up For 'Unprecedented' Study Into AltEn Pollution


by Christina Stella, NET News
Researchers from across the state are teaming up to study possible environmental and health impacts stemming from the AltEn ethanol plant s usage of pesticide treated seed corn. (Photo by Christina Stella, NET News)
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Christina Stella, NET News
April 7, 2021 - 4:53pm
Community members around Mead, Nebraska heard more details this week on a sprawling University of Nebraska research effort taking hold in their town.
At a virtual town hall hosted by the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health, scientists from across Nebraska laid out their plans to study how pesticide and fungicide pollution by the AltEn ethanol plant may be impacting human health and the environment. The 10-year study will feature researchers from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the University of Nebrask ....

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Researchers will study chemical impact near ethanol plant in Mead


Researchers will study chemical impact near ethanol plant in Mead
Team of scientists from Univ. of Nebraska and Creighton University plan to collect samples, survey community following February wastewater leak at AltEn facility
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Updated: 10:54 PM CDT Apr 7, 2021
Researchers will study chemical impact near ethanol plant in Mead
Team of scientists from Univ. of Nebraska and Creighton University plan to collect samples, survey community following February wastewater leak at AltEn facility
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Updated: 10:54 PM CDT Apr 7, 2021
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MARCH. JULIE: FROM KETV INVESTIGATES TONIGHT, RESEARCHERS WANT TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT’S IN THE GROUND. AND THE WATER, NEAR AN ETHANOL PLANT IN MEAD. ROB: FEBRUARY’S TOXIC SPILL AT ALT-EN HAS SINCE LED TO A LAWSUIT BY THE STATE. BUT SCIENTISTS ARE FOCUSED ON THE WELLBEING OF THE PEOPLE AND WILDLIFE NEAR THE PLANT. JULIE: KETV NEWSWATCH 7’S JOSE ZOZAYA ....

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