Dow Chemical

Child Organization: Dow AgroSciences

The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) is a multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States. As of 2007, it is the second largest chemical manufacturer in the world by revenue (after BASF) and as of February 2009, the third-largest chemical company in the world by market capitalization (after BASF and DuPont).

Source: Wikipedia

Campaign Finance

Information

Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:

  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.

Latest FEC Data

covers through committee's May 31, 2012 filing.
  • Summary

    overview of the committee's finances
    Total Raised:
    $627,772
    Total Spent:
    $493,397
    Cash on Hand:
    $199,382
    Debts:
    $0

Standardized Donation Information

covers through 2011. may lag behind FEC section above, as donors and industries are identified by hand.
  • Top Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.
  • Republicans vs. Democrats

    in dollars. "Other" includes 3rd parties and organizations without official party affiliation.
  • State vs. Federal

    in dollars
  • Top PAC Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.
View all campaign finance data for Dow Chemical Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$5,880,000 Spent
Information

Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

covers through Q3, 2011

Lobbying On Behalf of Dow Chemical

View all lobbying data for Dow Chemical Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

70 Mentions
Information

All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated from Regulations.gov on September 27, 2011

The tables show occurrences of "Dow Chemical" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

  • Mentions in Document Text
    • Mentions
    • Agency
    • Docket
    • Date
    • Toggle 4 EPA Tetrakis(hydroxymethyl)phosphonium sulphate (THPS) Registration Review Docket 2011
    • Toggle 3 EPA IPBC (Troysan KK-108A) Registration Review 2011
    • Toggle 3 DOE This docket contains Federal Register Notices from the DOE FDMS Sandbox. 2011
    • Toggle 3 EPA Human Studies Review Board Meeting 2011
    • Toggle 3 EPA Bronopol Registration Review 2011
    • Toggle 2 EPA Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California; 2007 South Coast State Implementation Plan for 1997 8-hour Ozone Standard and 2007 State Strategy 2011
    • Toggle 2 EPA Human Studies Review Board Meeting 2011
    • Toggle 2 EPA NESHAP for Secondary Lead Smelting Amendments Based on the Risk and Technology Review 2011
    • Toggle 2 EPA TX120 Texas Revisions to 30 TAC Chapter 116, Permits for New Construction or Modification, and Revision to Texas SIP, RE: Emission Reduction Provisions at 116.116(f), 116,174 and 116.175, submitted to EPA August 31, 1993 (6-31); July 22, 1998 (TX-104, 6-48); and October 5, 2010 (TX-302, 6-79, SIP) 2011
    • Toggle 2 EERE Building Energy Codes Program: Presenting and Receiving Comments to DOE Proposed Changes to the International Green Construction Code (IgCC) 2011

EPA Violations

1 Enforcement Actions
Information

Figures are based on data from the Environmental Protection Agency’s ECHO website. The ECHO database contains federal and state environmental enforcement actions. Data displayed here includes only those actions that began after 2000 and resulted in fines of over $1 million.

Actions where the company was the sole defendant are listed first. Actions where the company is one of multiple defendants are listed subsequently.

For more information see our EPA methodology page.

covers through EPA's October 19, 2011 release
Case Name Defendant Date Locations Amount
Operating Industries Inc Superfund Site Admin Settlement No.2010-04 The Dow Chemical Company (+275 others) 2011 Monterey Park, Ca $8,500,000
View all EPA violations data for Dow Chemical Sources: EPA ECHO Enforcement Data

Advisory Committees

11 people on 11 committees
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Data is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.

The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.

covers through 2011

Table shows employees of "Dow Chemical" that sat on federal advisory committees.

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle National Science Foundation 5 people on 4 committees
  • Toggle Department of Commerce 4 people on 4 committees
  • Toggle Department of Homeland Security 1 person on 1 committee
  • Toggle Department of Energy 1 person on 1 committee
  • Toggle Environmental Protection Agency 1 person on 1 committee
View all advisory committee data for Dow Chemical