[Pollinator] How an ethanol plant is dangerously polluting a US village

[Matthew Shepherd]

Shocking levels of insecticide contamination have been measured in Nebraska
due to neonic-treated seed corn being converted in ethanol at a biofuel
plant. In addition to the effects on local residents, it also led to honey
bee kills and contamination of milkweed growing on creek sides.



Matthew



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FROM: The Guardian (Sunday, 1/10/21)

*‘There’s a red flag here’: how an ethanol plant is dangerously polluting a
US village*



For the residents of Mead, Nebraska, the first sign of something amiss was
the stench, the smell of something rotting. People reported eye and throat
irritation and nosebleeds. Then colonies of bees started dying, birds and
butterflies appeared disoriented and pet dogs grew ill, staggering about
with dilated pupils.



There is no mystery as to the cause of the concerns in Mead, a farming
community so small that its 500 residents refer to it as a village and not
a town.



After multiple complaints to state and federal officials and an inquiry by
a researcher from the University of Nebraska, all evidence points to what
should be an unlikely culprit – an ethanol plant that, like many others
around the United States, turns corn into biofuel.



Read more at
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/10/mead-nebraska-ethanol-plant-pollution-danger







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Matthew Shepherd

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