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Sanimax USA LLC failed to seek a required major air permit amendment and conduct air emissions modeling prior to making changes to its pollution control equipment systems in 2019 at its animal products rendering facility in South St. Paul, Minnesota.

Two people in a canoe in a stand of wild rice plants.

We Are Water MN travels to Leech Lake, where Raining White works to protect and restore manoomin, or wild rice.

A man pours recycling, including a plastic jug and cardboard boxes, from a small blue bin into a larger one

How to prepare recycling for the curb

Artwork using seeds to depict three people wading in water with monitoring equipment and a border with fish, beaver, and turtles.

To commemorate the 2023 fish sampling season, Martha Young enlisted her mother to create a piece of seed art that will go on display at the 2024 Eco Experience

Report cover art with icons reflecting action and investments to address climate change

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State will begin engagement next month on an updated framework set to be released in 2025

Some permittees are receiving phishing attacks claiming to be from the EPA. How to spot a phishing attack and what to do about it.

MPCA environmental specialist Kevin Stroom records data from water samples from the Straight River

First of a series of MPCA staff profiles. Kevin Stroom conducts research on streams and has published a report about Straight River.

People standing in a bus lined with shelves full of food.

EPA awards Minnesota $200 million in Climate Pollution Reduction Grants

Aerial view of small stormwater ponds surrounded by erosion control blankets.

The MPCA gave an environmental award to the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, which sold land so it could become a watershed wetland in Baxter. The project is being finalized in summer 2024.

A small lake with light and dark green scum on the surface close to the shoreline.

When temperatures climb, conditions are ripe for Minnesota lakes to produce algae blooms, some of which can be harmful to pets and humans.

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