Company Also Named Recipient of U.S. EPA “Best of the Best” Award

MONTREAL — September 21, 2007 — Dow AgroSciences LLC, a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: Dow), has been named a winner of the United Nation’s Montreal Protocol Innovators Award at the annual Meeting of the Montreal Protocol, an international agreement designed to protect the earth’s ozone layer.

The award honors the company’s innovation, investment and commitment to protect the environment through its efforts to develop alternatives to methyl bromide, an ozone-depleting substance being phased out under the Protocol.

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