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https://www.afinalwarning.com/492181.html (Natural News) Residents in the small town of Mead in Nebraska have been dealing with a series of health and environmental issues since 2018. These issues include a sharp foul stench polluting the air, reports of unexplained throat irritation and nosebleeds, birds and butterflies appearing disoriented and even pet dogs becoming ill. But there is no mystery as to the cause of the health and environmental issues in Mead, a farming community with a population of 500 residents. After numerous complaints to state and federal officials and an inquiry...

Von, we can't say the president has been watching your reporting but interesting timing about his tweet on ethanol. what are you finding as you're talking to folks out there? >> the president hopes this ethanol package that he is teasing out this morning in that tweet will please farmers because right now across the midwest they're far from pleased. multiple farmers we talked to tell us that these epa waivers, essentially the epa has told these oil refineries they do not have to blend corn ethanol as part of their gasoline they're producing, which caused ire, not only farmers saying hey, our c...

>> hey, vaughn, it's nick here. so you're saying that this policy of ethanol waivers which hurts farmers in iowa, corn farmers around the country, is actually designed to help some oil companies? >> those -- exactly. look at who is running the epa. that's what the farmers and the folks that are running these ethanol plants will tell you here. those exemptions essentially keep oil companies from having to use the corn ethanol that is produced here in the midwest. in law was put into place to not only make the fuel supply more efficient, but also help the industry here, this biodiesel fuel indus...

Fuel supply to use a certain amount of corn ethanol in the u.s. gasoline system. so what has happened is the 31 exemptions from the e.p.a. have gone to the small oil refine refineries. the e.p.a. said you do not have to use corn ethanol. they have seen a drawback in the amount of the corn ethanol being used. they say that this breaks the law and that corn ethanol was to give corn ethanol access into the gasoline market. they said that that promise has been broken. they want the president to take a step back and reverse course. i want to let you hear from one farmer here. he gave us a sense of ...

More so than the trade war, the conversation that is taking place is over those epa waivers. over the last three years, the trump administration, through the epa, has granted small oil refineries these waivers from having to use corn ethanol in their gasoline supply. why is this a big deal? go back to 2015 and 2016. president trump promised farmers here across the midwest that he would defend what is called the renewable fuel standards which is that law that requires the u.s. fuel supply to use a certain amount of corn ethanol. but what you've seen is a backtrack on that and there's been less ...