Dow flies from Midland to Texas Gulf Coast amid pollution lawsuit

Dow flew from MBS International Airport in Midland, Michigan, to Texas Gulf Coast Regional Airport on June 7, a 2-hour-47-minute trip that landed N892D, the company’s Bombardier CRJ-900, near its Seadrift chemical complex. The flight arrived the same week the Texas Attorney General’s office is pursuing a lawsuit against Dow subsidiary Union Carbide, alleging hundreds of water pollution violations at the 4,700-acre facility, per a Texas Tribune report from earlier this year. Separately, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is weighing a Dow permit amendment that would effectively legalize discharges of plastic pellets into waterways feeding San Antonio Bay, a move environmental groups have called unprecedented [texastribune.org](https://www.texastribune.org).

While Dow typically uses this CRJ-900 to shuttle engineering teams between its Louisiana operations and Gulf Coast plants — the jet has made five round trips between Baton Rouge and KLBX since May 5 — this flight originated at corporate headquarters in Midland. That suggests direct involvement of senior leadership or specialized teams as the company navigates both a legal deadline and a regulatory decision that could reshape how plastics waste is managed on the Texas coast [celebplanes.com](https://www.celebplanes.com/articles/dow-inc-flight-1204).

The Seadrift complex, which employs more than 1,000 people across eight production plants, has received the Texas Chemical Council’s Caring for Texas award for community involvement and pollution prevention, per Dow’s corporate site. But the state’s allegations and the pending permit amendment put that record under renewed scrutiny — and put Dow’s corporate jet on a familiar route to the Texas coast.