Marking the end of a five-year lawsuit, Dow Chemical Co. has announced its plan to contribute $3 million for San Francisco Bay protection while it also cleans up ground water contamination at its nearby Pittsburg plant, according to a report from U.S. Water News Online.
The deal, struck between environmental group San Francisco BayKeeper and Dow, lets the company back out of a previous agreement to build a ground water pumping plant to clean up the contamination, which could have cost the company as much as $100 million.