Dow’s fleet touches down in Michigan the week of nuclear milestone and pollution suit

Dow flew from Heritage Field in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, to Dow’s home base near Midland, Michigan, on June 8, a swift 78-minute hop aboard its Bombardier CRJ-900, N892D. The aircraft, a 90-seat regional jet unusual for a corporate fleet, typically shuttles engineering teams between Dow’s sprawling chemical sites — but this week its arrival in Midland coincides with a full calendar of corporate and regulatory news.

The same week the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a Finding of No Significant Impact for Dow and X-energy’s proposed advanced nuclear project in Seadrift, Texas — a milestone the company calls a key step toward grid-scale industrial nuclear power, per a May 18 Dow press release [corporate.dow.com]. Closer to home, the Texas Attorney General’s lawsuit against Dow subsidiary Union Carbide over alleged water pollution violations continues in Travis County, while the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality weighs a permit amendment that would permit plastic pellet discharges into San Antonio Bay, as reported by the Texas Tribune [texastribune.org].

The flight from Pennsylvania — home to Dow’s包装 and specialty plastics operations — to Midland suggests executive coordination ahead of Dow’s June 9 fireside chat at the Wells Fargo Industrials & Materials Conference (the CEO is participating virtually) [prnewswire.com]. It also extends a pattern: N892D has logged 21 flights in recent weeks, primarily shuttling between Baton Rouge, the Texas Gulf Coast, and Midland, mirroring Dow’s supply chain and legal battlegrounds.