Dow lands in Baton Rouge the week Texas sues over plastic pollution

Dow flew from Texas Gulf Coast Regional Airport to Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport on June 8, a brief 45-minute hop that landed N892D, the company's Bombardier CRJ-900, back at its Louisiana operations hub. The shuttle flight, which reached a max altitude of just 1,325 feet, is a routine leg for Dow's engineering teams moving between its sprawling chemical plants.

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 Seadrift complex, per a February filing in Travis County District Court [texastribune.org](https://www.texastribune.org). Separately, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is weighing a Dow permit amendment that environmental groups say would legalize discharges of plastic pellets into waterways feeding San Antonio Bay [texastribune.org](https://www.texastribune.org).

The flight continues a familiar pattern: N892D has made multiple round trips between Baton Rouge and the Houston-area airport since early May, mirroring Dow's supply chain between its Louisiana operations and the Gulf Coast manufacturing corridor. Dow uses the 90-seat regional jet to move engineering teams between its chemical plants, and this week those teams are likely focused on the Seadrift complex, where the company faces both a legal deadline and a regulatory decision that could reshape plastics-waste management on the Texas coast [celebplanes.com](https://www.celebplanes.com/articles/dow-inc-flight-1204).