Each year, the MPCA works with the Governor's Office, legislators, other state agencies, interest groups, and trade organizations to propose changes in law that will enhance environmental protection. Fact sheets on various initiatives or topics of controversy or interest will be posted on this page as soon as they are completed.
2019 fact sheets
MPCA Budget for One Minnesota 2019 (leg-sy19-13)
Budget: Meet Minnesotans' expectations for MPCA online services (leg-sy19-01)
Budget: All Minnesotans can help create climate-change policy (leg-sy19-02)
Budget: Expand electric-vehicle charging infrastructure (leg-sy19-03)
Budget: Divert food waste from landfills (leg-sy19-04)
Budget: Clean up the Freeway Landfill and Dump (leg-sy19-05)
Budget: Investigate pollution in a sensitive ecology (leg-sy19-06)
Budget: Expand the market for recyclables in Minnesota (leg-sy19-07)
Budget: Continue the ambitious cleanup of Lake Superior's headwaters (leg-sy19-08)
Budget: Address emerging threats at contaminated sites (leg-sy19-09)
Budget: Understanding and reducing TCE health risks (leg-sy19-14)
2018 fact sheets
Bonding proposal: Clean up the Freeway Landfill and Dump (leg-sy18-08)
Bonding proposal: Expand opportunities for organics recycling (leg-sy18-02)
Bonding proposal: Remove hazardous waste at the WDE landfill (leg-sy18-03)
Policy proposals: Small changes, big impacts (leg-sy18-05)
VW settlement: Reduce air pollution from faulty VW diesel engines (leg-sy18-04)
3M settlement: key facts (leg-sy18-06)
3M settlement: financial framework (leg-sy18-07)
2017 fact sheets
Budget initiative: Business-friendly online services (leg-sy17-03)
Budget initiative: Protect groundwater from landfilled demolition materials (leg-sy17-04)
Bonding proposal: Clean up plan for St. Louis River (leg-sy17-09)
Policy proposal: Extend ban on open-air, hog-manure basins (leg-sy17-08)
Bonding proposal: Grants for three solid waste projects (leg-sy17-10)
Budget initiative: Address site contamination and vapor intrusion (leg-sy17-05)
Policy proposal: Change labels on disposable wipes: Do Not Flush (leg-sy17-07)
Bonding proposal: Remove hazardous waste at WDE Landfill (leg-sy17-06)
2016 fact sheets
Bonding proposal: Removing the hazardous waste pit at the WDE Landfill (leg-sy16-02)
Proposal: Give communities some regulatory certainty (leg-sy16-03)
Proposal: Change labels on disposable wipes: Do Not Flush (leg-sy16-04)
Bonding proposal: A cleanup plan for Lake Superior’s headwaters (leg-sy16-11)
2015 fact sheets
2015 Legislative Session Summary
Proposed MPCA Policy Changes
Point of sale contamination awareness
Proposed changes to the Electronic Recycling Act
MPCA Biennial Budget FY 2016-2017
Clean Water Fund
Improving our environmental data services
2015 legislative fact sheets: Restructuring fees
2015 legislative fact sheet: Creating a central rulemaking tool
2015 legislative fact sheet: Working to make consumer products safer
2015 legislative fact sheet: Cleaning up Superfund and petroleum sites
2015 legislative fact sheet: EQB — Environmental Review Efficiency
MPCA’s proposed bonding projects for 2015
2014 fact sheets
2013 fact sheets
MPCA Biennial Budget FY 2014-2015 — to various committees and legislators
Summary of MPCA Projects proposed for LCCMR Funding
MPCA Bonding Bill - 2013 Capitol Budget
MPCA Product Stewardship Initiatives 2013 — Paint, carpet and batteries
MPCA Environmental Review and Permitting reforms 2013 — to various committees and legislators
MPCA Policy Bill 2013 — to various committees and legislators
MPCA Administrative Support budget — performance through FY2012 and proposal for FY 2014 and FY 2015 — to various committees and legislators
MPCA Environmental Assistance Cross Media Program budget: Performance through FY 2013 and proposal for FY 2014 and FY 2015 — to various committees and legislators
MPCA Land Program budget: Performance through FY 2013 and proposal for FY 2014 and FY 2015 to various committees and legislators
MPCA Water Program budget: Performance through FY 2013 and proposal for FY 2014 and FY 2015 — to various committees and legislators
MPCA Air Program budget: Performance through FY 2013 and proposal for FY 2014 and FY 2015 — to various committees and legislators
2012 fact sheets
LCCMR Project Summary Information
Paint Product Stewardship - Reducing waste management costs for local government
MPCA Compliance and Enforcement Receipts
MPCA Bonding Bill: 2012 Capital Budget (leg-12sy1-05)
The Benefits of Organized Collection — Waste Collection Service Arrangements [leg-12sy1-06]
MPCA policy bill (leg-12sy1-03)
Expanding Renewable Energy and Recycling: Restrictions on Disposal of Metropolitan Area Waste (leg-12sy1-01)
Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) General Permit Reissuance Process and Requirements (wq-strm4-85c)
Spill regulation reform: Clarifying reporting and cleanup requirements (leg-12sy1-02)
State Disposal System permit for large feedlots (wq-f3-48)
2011 fact sheets
MPCA Biennial Budget: FY2012-2013 (Factsheet) to House Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Committee and Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee – March 2011 (ld-4sy11)
FY10-11 Clean Water Funding for Minnesota water agencies (Factsheet) to House Legacy Funding Division – January 2011 (ld-2sy11)