Dow Chemical in talks with EPA over dioxin cleanup: New York Times

By MarketWatch Last Update: 6:17 AM ET Jul 4, 2007

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Dow Chemical Co. (DOW : The Dow Chemical Company News , chart , profile , more Last: 45.82+0.03+0.07%

4:05pm 07/06/2007

Delayed quote dataAdd to portfolio Analyst Create alertInsider Discuss Financials Sponsored by: DOW45.82, +0.03, +0.1%) is negotiating with the Environmental Protection Agency over the timing and procedures to clean up three areas of dioxin-contaminated sediments in a Michigan river that flows past its main manufacturing plant, The New York Times reported on its Web site late Tuesday. The negotiations were prompted last week when the agency decided to order the cleanup. A spokesman for Dow said it was already working on cleaning up the highly toxic dioxin. The Times reported that Margaret Guerriero, director of the land and chemicals division for the environmental agency's regional office in Chicago, said: "Our concern was that they were not moving fast enough, and this was going to get protracted because of the seasonal nature of the work. There is only a certain window every year when you can go in and do the work. We were worried that it was going to slip." "A good bit of what they were asking us to do to - in their words, hurry the process up - we had already agreed to do, and to some extent gotten that work under way," the Times reported Dow Chemical spokesman John Musser as saying. The sites are within six miles of the plant in Midland, Mich. One is not far from the plant, 30 to 70 feet from the riverbank. The dioxin is in sediments 2 to 10 feet below the surface of the Tittabawassee River. Newspaper Web Site: http://www.nytimes.com -Contact: 201-938-5400

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