On March 1, 2024, Dow Inc. filed a definitive proxy statement soliciting proxies and urged the shareholders to vote against a shareholder proposal, requesting that the Board issue an audited report addressing whether and how a significant reduction in virgin plastic demand, as set forth in Breaking the Plastic Wave?s System Change Scenario to reduce plastic pollution, would affect the Company?s financial position and assumptions underlying its financial statements, submitted by As You Sow on behalf of Warren Wilson College and Andrew Behar, and by Mercy Investment Services, Inc. as co-filer at the Company?s annual shareholders meeting scheduled to be held on April 11, 2024.