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.
2021 fact sheets
Budget
Meeting Minnesotans' need for online services (leg-sy21-01)- Protecting Minnesota’s air quality (leg-sy21-02)
- Realigning agency funding (leg-sy21-19)
- Protecting Minnesota communities from air pollution (leg-sy21-21)
- Identifying sources of PFAS in the environment (leg-sy21-22)
- Evaluating PFAS contamination at landfills, compost facilities, and wastewater treatment plants (leg-sy21-23)
- Protecting Minnesotans from fish contaminated with PFAS (leg-sy21-24)
- Helping communities prepare for possible railroad spills (leg-sy21-25)
- Addressing mercury in the St. Louis River Watershed (leg-sy21-27)
Policy
- Three land policy changes (leg-sy21-32)
- Requiring companies to disclose information on contaminants (leg-sy21-33)
- Designating PFAS a hazardous substance under Superfund (leg-sy21-34)
- Updating and clarifying electronic waste statutes (leg-sy21-35)
Policy + budget
- Keeping permitted facilities in compliance (leg-sy21-14)
- Enhancing efficiency by eliminating redundant report on implementation of water quality standards in permits (leg-sy21-15)
- Addressing statewide inequities in pollution exposure (leg-sy21-16)
- Preparing communities for our changing climate (leg-sy21-18)
- Promoting sustainability through waste prevention and reuse (leg-sy21-20)
- Expanding eligibility for recycling and composting grants (leg-sy21-29)
- Uniform labeling for compostable products (leg-sy21-30)
- Rapidly responding to protect Minnesotans: Clarify statutory appropriation for CLIF (leg-sy21-31)
2020 fact sheets
Bonding proposals
- Build solid waste infrastructure in Minnesota (leg-sy20-01)
- Build resilience to climate change in Minnesota (leg-sy20-02)
- Remove contaminated sediment from stormwater ponds (leg-sy20-03)
- Clean up contaminated sites to protect groundwater (leg-sy20-04)
- Expand electric vehicle charging infrastructure (leg-sy20-05)
Policy proposals
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 Capital 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)