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Following a lawsuit filed by Bayer AG in March alleging Mead, Nebraska, ethanol plant owner AltEn LLC violated agreements with Bayer to provide pesticide-treated seed to produce biofuel, a federal judge Monday consolidated all lawsuits filed by seed companies against AltEn.

On Wednesday, Bayer US LLC filed a complaint in the District of Nebraska against AltEn, LLC, Mead Cattle Company, LLC, Green Disposal Mead LLC, Platte

Seed companies say AltEn is responsible for cleanup cost: $100 million

The former suppliers to AltEn said the facility broke state and federal laws and violated the terms of the agreements they signed with the Kansas-based biofuel company.

On Tuesday, Syngenta Seeds, LLC filed a complaint in the District of Nebraska against AltEn, LLC, Mead Cattle Company, LLC, Green Disposal Mead LLC,

Several seed companies voluntarily cleaning up the site of an abandoned ethanol plant in Nebraska, have asked a federal court to stop the company from its continued sale of assets and require it to pay for the cleanup.

Six seed companies funding the clean-up of multiple hazardous materials at the AltEn site in Mead are suing the former ethanol company.

The troubled AltEn ethanol plant planned to sell contaminated byproduct to a Kansas ranching and farming group. Then state regulators stepped in, and found the Kansas company didn’t have the full picture.

A Topeka landowner who initially agreed to buy biochar from AltEn told the Journal Star he wasn’t aware of the former ethanol plant’s operations and history of running afoul of

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 pile...