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Updates from the AltEn Facility Response Group (FRG) on remediation efforts at AltEn’s vacated ethanol production facility in Mead, Nebraska.
Federal judge freezes most of AltEn's assets at the request of seed companies, Lincoln Journal Star, by Chris Dunker, Feb. 14, 2023
Seed companies seek AltEn assets to help cleanup; ethanol plant says it needs funds to comply with state, Lincoln Journal Star, by Chris Dunker, Feb. 3, 2023
Nebraska fights court action by seed companies to block AltEn from transferring funds, Lincoln Journal Star, by Chris Dunker, January 28, 2023
Click here to view the AltEn Facility Response Group Information Directory
Click here to view a letter co-signed by multiple organizations: Major Reform is Needed in EPA OPP’s Pesticide Regulation, October 25, 2021
EPA Responds to Treated Seed Petition, September 28, 2022
Legislation
Ban on treated seed in ethanol production amended, advanced: LB 507 and amendments
'Treated seed in ethanol production banned,' Nebraska Unicameral Update, (LB507, LB190, LB191, LB395), April 29, 2021
LB634 - Provide a cause of action for unsafe disposal of treated seed
Legal
After AltEn Spill, Legal Claims Sink In, The Nebraska Lawyer, by Vanessa Silke and Hannes Zetzsche, May/June, 2022.
Selected Technical Reports and Documents
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(pdf documents)
Extracted from: The Groundwater Atlas of Saunders County, Nebraska, November 2015
Complaint, Compliance Order and Notice of Opportunity for Hearing, November 20, 2018
Air pollution at AltEn, Signed March 30, 2019, 2018 readings
NDEE Notice of Violation, August 9, 2018
Air pollution at AltEn, April 15-16, 2020
Consent order to allow limited operation and testing of biochar unit, February 24, 2020
Performance test results on biochar/gassifer stack, July 21, 2020
NDEE Air quality compliance report, February 25, 2020
AltEn March 2021 rain event record, March 2021
Safe Handling of Treated Seed, UNL Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, April 16, 2020
AltEn marketing memo soliciting treated seed for their ethanol plant, August 3, 2020
Letter from the EPA to NDEE stating that: The EPA cannot conclude that land application of the wet cake will not result in unreasonable adverse effects on humans or the environment, Nov. 17. 2020.
Natural Resources Defense Council, OPP Docket, U.S. EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), (28221T), June 18, 2020 (scroll to #6 for information about treated seeds)
AltEn site visit report, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, NDEE, March 18, 2021
Residential Proximity to Pesticide Application as a Risk Factor for Childhood Central Nervous System Tumors, Environmental Research Journal, March 21, 2021.
Treated seeds regulations, March 25, 2021
Environmental Site Investigation, AltEn LLC, Mead, Nebraska, IIS#84069, Nebraska Dept. of Environment & Energy, April 14, 2021
Surface and Groundwater Contamination, Community and Ecosystem Exposures Are the Unintentional Consequences from “Recycling” Treated Seed Products, Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt and Jesse E. Bell, Environmental Science & Technology, April 15, 2021.
Nebraska Voluntary Cleanup Program Overview, (posted on this web page on June 15, 2021)
What's on your seed? This publication is available from the Nutrient and Pest Management (NPM) Program. For copies, contact us at: phone (608) 265-2660, email (npm@hort.wisc.edu) or visit our website: https:/ipcm.wisc.edu
Comments on the Proposed Interim Registration Review Decisions for the Neonicotinoid Insecticide Class, letter to EPA from Lucas Rhoads
Staff Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council, (item number 6on page 6 makes reference to AltEn), June 18, 2021.
Protecting Aquatic Ecosystems: Insecticide Seed Treatments Threaten Midwestern Waterways, Xerces Society, 2021.
Sample of the warnings on a bag of treated seeds (above) Click here to view a pdf of the treated seed label.
Results indicating that the biochar is contaminated, NDEE, tests performed by South Dakota Agriculture Laboratories, March 26, 2021
