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Wednesday, August 08, 2012  US starts landmark cleanup of Agent Orange nearly 4 decades after Vietnam War's end

Tuesday, July 17, 2012  Dioxin is a family of toxic chemical byproducts.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012  Tuesday night at Dow Memorial Library Auditorium, the Michigan Department of Environmental quality and representatives from Dow Chemical took input from the public on a plan to reclaim 1,700 acres worth of property contaminated with harmful

Tuesday, March 20, 2012  Federal officials say they're still a couple years away regarding a plan to clean up a 24-mile section of the Tittabawassee River polluted with dioxin from a Dow Chemical Co. plant.

Thursday, March 01, 2012  Dow is offering to test and replace the soil on hundreds of other properties in the Dioxin Resolution Area - a total of about 1,700 acres.  Properties that test above an EPA-approved level of 250 parts per trillion of dioxins will be offered cleanup and re-landscaping. If the property owner chooses to forgo cleanup, Dow will set aside money for future work.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012  Soil testing on more than 1,500 Midland homes is scheduled to begin this summer.

Friday, February 17, 2012  Majority of residents tell NBC25 they are in favor of testing and remediation

Thursday, February 16, 2012  Dow Chemical Company says it is offering to buy 50 properties near its manufacturing site and clean up nearly 1,400 more.  All of this because Dow contaminated the soil with dioxins at the turn of the century up until 1930.  According to the World Health Organization dioxins are highly toxic environmental pollutants that can cause reproductive problems and even cancer.

Friday, August 19, 2011  The EPA has openend an online forum and is asking for the public’s reaction to a $5.75 million Dow Dioxin cleanup plan in Saginaw County. What are some suggestions you have?

Wednesday, July 20, 2011  Judge says property owners can't file a class action lawsuit against Dow Chemical for dioxins that may have damaged their land.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011  A report states that hundreds of Texas residents are suing Dow Chemical and three other companies because of alleged water contamination.

Thursday, April 28, 2011  Great Lakes Bay Region residents study dioxin clean-up plan at SVSU.

Monday, November 01, 2010  MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) - The government has spent many millions of dollars in recent decades cleaning up sites contaminated with dioxin and, in extreme cases, relocating residents of entire tainted neighborhoods.

Friday, January 15, 2010  The agreement with Dow Chemical Co. outlines the next steps in a Superfund evaluation of contamination in the Tittabawassee River, the Saginaw River and Saginaw Bay and their floodplains.

Thursday, December 17, 2009  Mid-Michigan residents have until Thursday to voice their opinion on cleaning up the dioxin contamination near Dow Chemical Company.