Dow's CRJ-900 circles Midland as company navigates pollution lawsuit and nuclear milestone

Dow flew its Bombardier CRJ-900 (N892D) from MBS International Airport back to MBS International Airport on June 8, a seven-minute hop that kept the aircraft at its home base. The brief local flight, likely a maintenance check or air test, saw the jet climb to just 475 feet before landing.

The same week, Dow is grappling with a Texas Attorney General lawsuit against subsidiary Union Carbide, alleging hundreds of water pollution violations at the Seadrift complex, per the Texas Tribune. Separately, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a Finding of No Significant Impact for Dow and X-energy's proposed advanced nuclear reactor at Seadrift, a key step toward the first grid-scale advanced nuclear deployment at an industrial site in North America, according to a Dow press release.

While Dow's CRJ-900 typically shuttles engineering teams between its Louisiana and Gulf Coast plants, this brief circuit at Midland suggests a quieter day at headquarters—one spent managing a legal deadline and a regulatory green light in the same week.