Dow lands in Baton Rouge the week of a chemical safety report and a nuclear milestone

Dow flew from Ezer Ranch Airport in Texas to Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport on June 9, a 42-minute hop that landed N892D, the company’s Bombardier CRJ-900, at the doorstep of its Louisiana chemical complex. The flight arrived the same week the U.S. Chemical Safety Board released its final investigation report into a July 2023 explosion and toxic ethylene oxide release at Dow’s Plaquemine plant, per a February 2026 CSB release [csb.gov](https://www.csb.gov/us-chemical-safety-board-releases-investigation-report-on-the-2023-explosion-and-toxic-ethylene-oxide-release-at-dow-plant-in-plaquemine-louisiana). Separately, the company’s Union Carbide subsidiary faces EPA scrutiny over alleged safety lapses and corrosion at a St. Charles Parish plant, as reported by NOLA.com [nola.com](https://www.nola.com/news/business/louisiana-environment-pollution-dow-chemical-union-carbide-epa/article_37bc2b6f-ec97-4998-9b32-0a5ed5192e86.html).

But the trip also comes just weeks after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a Finding of No Significant Impact for Dow and X-energy’s proposed advanced nuclear reactor at the company’s Seadrift, Texas, site, per a May 18 corporate press release [corporate.dow.com](https://corporate.dow.com/en-us/news/press-releases/nrc-issues-environmental-assessment-with--finding-of-no-signific.html). The Long Mott Generating Station would be the first grid-scale advanced nuclear reactor at a U.S. industrial site, providing steam and electricity to Dow’s chemical operations.

The shuttle pattern is familiar: N892D has made multiple round trips between Baton Rouge and Texas Gulf Coast airports since early May, mirroring Dow’s supply chain between its Louisiana plants and the Gulf Coast manufacturing corridor. The 90-seat regional jet is used to move engineering teams between sprawling chemical sites — and this week, those teams are likely balancing regulatory responses in Louisiana with a nuclear licensing milestone in Texas.