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Environmental Proceedings
−Removed: On May 17, 2021, the Company received a civil complaint from the State of Texas ("State") on behalf of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
−Removed: The complaint, filed in the 250th District Court of Travis County, Texas, alleges environmental violations at the Company's Freeport, Texas, site involving 12 discrete air emissions events.
−Removed: The State is seeking monetary relief of no more than $1 million and injunctive relief to prevent recurrence.
−Removed: On August 31, 2021, the State informed the Company that it would be including additional air emissions events in the complaint, which may impact the monetary relief sought by the State.
+Added: On May 17, 2021, the Company received a civil complaint from the State of Texas ("State") on behalf of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, filed in the 250th District Court of Travis County, Texas.
+Added: The suit alleges environmental violations at the Company's Freeport, Texas, site involving several air emissions events, which allegedly occurred at the site between 2016 and 2021.
+Added: The State is seeking monetary and injunctive relief to prevent recurrence.
Discussions between the Company and the Texas Office of the Attorney General are ongoing.
−Removed: On February 3, 2022, the U.S.
−Removed: Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposed a draft administrative order to resolve alleged violations at the Rohm and Haas Chemicals facility in Kankakee, Illinois, relating to a storage tank at the site that does not have certain control equipment specified by EPA Clean Air Act regulations.
−Removed: This issue was self-disclosed by the facility to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency in 2015.
−Removed: Negotiations with the agencies are ongoing.
On December 16, 2022, the U.S.
Department of Justice filed a complaint and proposed consent decree on behalf of the EPA relating to environmental contamination at the Lower Passaic River Study Area Superfund Site in New Jersey.
+Added: The EPA filed an amended complaint and proposed consent decree on January 17, 2024.
The proposed consent decree includes a requirement that 85 settling defendants, including the Company’s Essex Chemical Corporation subsidiary ("Essex"), make a collective payment of $150 million for the EPA’s past and anticipated future response costs, with Essex’s share of the group settlement costs being $1.15 million.
−Removed: The proposed consent decree was submitted for notice and a public comment period on December 23, 2022, with public comments due by March 23, 2023.
+Added: In June 2023, INEMA, the Bahia, Brazil, state environmental agency notified Dow Brasil Indústria e Comércio de Produtos Químicos Ltda of its intention to impose penalties relating to Dow’s historic brine mining operations on Matarandiba Island, which INEMA alleges have contributed to environmental issues at the location.
+Added: Discussions between Dow and the relevant government agencies are ongoing.
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