The Mead Village Board of Trustees voted 5-0 Tuesday to revoke AltEn’s conditional use permit.
The trustees followed the recommendation set by the Mead planning commission during a vote last month.
When it went into operation in 2015, AltEn began using corn and soybean seeds coated in pesticides as a feedstock to produce ethanol, rather than harvested grain as is used in nearly all other ethanol plants in the United States.
AltEn’s ethanol manufacturing process left behind solid and wastewater byproducts heavily contaminated with insecticides and fungicides, which are believed to be the cause of health and environmental problems in the area.
In February, the state forced the company to shut down temporarily. In March, it sued the company over cleanup of potential groundwater contamination near the plant.
Gov. Pete Ricketts said at the time the lawsuit was filed that the company was “terribly managed.”
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