Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen speaks to attendees of a meeting in Mead, Neb., with community members receiving an update on private cleanup efforts with state help of the former AltEn ethanol plant. (Courtesy of the Nebraska Governor’s Office)
MEAD, Neb. — Years of private efforts to clean up wet cake pollution from a Nebraska ethanol plant that turned pesticide-coated seed corn into fuel inched in recent weeks toward resolution.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen on Tuesday visited with Mead residents to tout the state’s progress in working with six seed companies now running the former AltEn ethanol plant’s cleanup, the AltEn Facility Response Group…