Dow settles with EPA over flaring in Texas, La. Jacob Dick, Staff writer FacebookTwitterEmail The Dow Chemical Co. is tackling the world's plastic pollution. (Photo provided) Dow Chemical will have to spend close to $300 million on equipment upgrades and pay $3 million in fines as a part of a settlement with federal agencies and the state of Louisiana over emissions from its plants there and in Texas, the agencies announced. The company will have to install and operate air pollution control and monitoring technology on 26 industrial flares, some of them at plants in Orange and Freeport, after action by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice.