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Rising floodwaters unleashed by two dam failures submerged parts of the central Michigan town of Midland on Wednesday, displacing thousands of residents and spreading into a Dow Chemical Co plant in the riverfront city.

Dow Chemical Co has reached a $77 million deal with the federal government, the state of Michigan and a Native American tribe to fund environmental restoration projects to resolve a lawsuit accusing it of releasing hazardous substances for decades from a Michigan facility.

DowDuPont Inc said it expects to book an pretax charge of $800 million to $1.3 billion for the April-June quarter, resulting from changes in valuation of assets in the wake of a drop in ethanol prices and weak demand for its biomaterial products.

Chemicals producer DowDuPont Inc said on Friday it would separate its material science unit, to be named "Dow," on April 1, the first split in its planned break-up into three companies.

DowDuPont Inc said on Friday it will separate its material science unit, to be called Dow, on April 1.

Dow Chemical Co and Shell Oil Co have been hit with a lawsuit by the city of Arcadia, California accusing the companies of contaminating the city's drinking water with a toxic chemical found in pesticides the companies once made.

Saudi Arabia's sovereign fund has named Andrew Liveris, the former chairman and chief executive of Dow Chemical, as a special adviser, in its highest-profile appointment of any global manufacturing executive.

Saudi Arabia's sovereign fund has appointed Andrew Liveris, the former chairman and chief executive of Dow Chemical, as a special adviser, it said on Sunday.

* DOW EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL CHARLES J. KALIL TO RETIRE; AMY WILSON NAMED DOW GENERAL COUNSEL-ELECT FOR DOW AND GENERAL COUNSEL-ELECT MATERIALS SCIENCE DIVISION Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:

DowDuPont Inc chief Andrew Liveris will step down on April 1, making good on an earlier promise to retire as the company named existing managers to head its materials science unit when it is spun off as Dow next year.

* DOW CHEMICAL'S ANDREW LIVERIS TO DEPART; JIM FITTERLING TO BE CEO OF NEW DOW AFTER BREAKUP - WSJ

Argentina, one of the world's leading exporters of foodstuffs, approved on Tuesday the use of two corn GMO varieties belonging to Syngenta and the local unit of Dow Chemical, and one soy GMO variety belonging to Bayer SA.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday nominated a Dow Chemicals lawyer to head-up an Environmental Protection Agency unit that oversees hazardous waste disposal and chemical spills from toxic "Superfund" sites.

DowDuPont Inc <DWDP.N> on Monday announced the names of the three publicly traded companies it plans to create following the $130 billion merger of chemicals companies Dow and DuPont last year.

* UNIVAR AND DOW EXPAND RELATIONSHIP TO INCLUDE EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTION OF UCON™ FLUIDS AND LUBRICANTS

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that Dow Chemical Co was not the joint employer of a partially-owned subsidiary's former executive in Dubai who claimed she faced sexist comments and was fired for getting a divorce.

China's CITIC Agri Fund said on Friday it had completed its $1.1 billion acquisition of Dow Chemical Co's corn seed business in Brazil, a potential vehicle for future purchases in Latin America.

China's Citic Agri Fund on Friday said it has completed the $1.1 billion acquisition of Dow's corn seed business in Brazil, rebranding the company as LP Sementes Ltda.

A French court suspended on Friday the licence for two pesticides made by Dow Chemical, citing uncertainty over environmental risks including their effects on bees.