Environmental Compliance GRI Dow Corning Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow, has received the following notifications from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 5, related to Dow Corning’s Midland, Michigan, manufacturing facility: 1) a Notice of Violation and Finding of Violation (received in April 2012), which alleges a number of violations in connection with the detection, monitoring and control of certain organic hazardous air pollutants at the facility and various recordkeeping and reporting violations under the Clean Air Act; and 2) a Notice of Violation (received in May 2015) alleging a number of violations relating to the management of hazardous wastes at the facility pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Discussions between the EPA, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Dow Corning are ongoing.