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In early 2024, Minnesota became the first U.S. state to establish a product stewardship program for boat wrap, which must provide free collection, transportation, reuse, recycling, and disposal.

Removing Middle Lake from the impaired waters list required wrangling with a bottom feeder, the invasive carp.

Question and answer session with Lisa Weidemann, a community affairs specialist with the MPCA, about her work with the agency.

Minnesota’s policy is to eliminate or reduce the use, generation, and release of toxic pollutants and hazardous wastes at their source.

Information will support the phase out of nonessential use of “forever chemicals” in Minnesota

Lead-free fishing tackle is not a novelty. We provide this list of vendors that manufacture, retail, or supply nontoxic fishing weights.

Keep It Clean focuses on the growing problem of garbage and human waste left on the ice by anglers and other visitors during ice fishing season.

Volunteer-collected data are regularly used in decision-making and conservation efforts. Find a program that excites you and join in.

Product stewardship encourages manufacturers, retailers, and consumers to treat products as resources rather than waste, changing how they think about the products they make, buy, and use.

The MPCA has a variety of educational displays, programs, and materials about chloride pollution. We encourage our partners to utilize these resources to engage with their community.

“Urban wood,” or wood salvaged from cities, suburbs, and towns, is a growing issue in Minnesota because of severe weather, urban expansion, and the emerald ash borer. Rather than burning the trees as waste, a preferred option for dealing with urban wood involves creating durable wood products like furniture, building materials, and wooden décor.

Residents' guide to stormwater permitting.

Green and safer product chemistry is formulating or designing a new product (or reformulating an existing one) to reduce harmful environmental, workplace, human health, and energy use effects over the product's entire life cycle.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) requests public comment on a rule that will shape nation-leading restrictions on the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

The MPCA’s Smart Salting program helps cut down on chloride pollution by training snowplow drivers and municipalities to use less salt on the roadways.

Less than three years after Minnesota passed the country's first ban on TCE, a carcinogenic solvent, facilities around the state have removed it from their processes.

Throughout her life, Jen Widmer has felt a deep connection to wetlands. As a child, she played broomball on the ice of a wetland near her home. She once attempted swimming in the wetland but was…

Environmental information for craft breweries, distilleries, wineries, and cideries, and for home brewers who want to start commercial production.

The Keep It Clean campaign, a 2023 Minnesota law, and many partners working together are adding up to less garbage and waste left behind on frozen lakes.

New MPCA report monitors PFAS sources and movement, provides direction for preventing and managing PFAS pollution.