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The MPCA has announced 13 grant recipients that will receive a total of nearly $4.8 million for projects that will keep good food from going to waste in Minnesota while diverting usable food to people in need.
The MPCA has released the draft 2025 Minnesota Nutrient Reduction Strategy for public review and comment.
SSTS staff contact information and areas of responsibility.
A new $75,000 grant from the MPCA will help the U of M’s Forever Green Initiative make camelina a viable crop for sustainable aviation fuel.
New MPCA report monitors PFAS sources and movement, provides direction for preventing and managing PFAS pollution.
This feature summarizes findings from four WRAPS reports in 2024: Root River, Mississippi River-St. Cloud, Pomme de Terre River, and Mississippi River-Lake Pepin Tributaries.
Governor Walz appointed Katrina Kessler as MPCA commissioner effective November 1. Kessler has been serving as an assistant commissioner.
As part of our commitment to continuous improvement, transparency, certainty, and customer service, the MPCA is improving the way we track and administer permits. These efforts are part of periodical…
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is planning amendments to rules governing water quality fees (Minn. R. ch. 7002 and 7083).
Smith Foundry has ceased operations at its East Phillips facility after an investigation and settlement with the U.S. EPA that the MPCA supported.
Clean Water Fund dollars come from the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment that Minnesotans approved in 2008.
The MPCA proposes adding 46 new impaired bodies of water and removing 45 impairments from bodies of water from the IWL, the most removals in a two-year cycle since the state began the IWL program in 1992.
Communities facing the impacts of air pollution will soon have new resources to understand and improve the air quality in their neighborhoods after the MPCA awarded $…
Through this Minnesota climate smart food systems (CSFS) grant, the MPCA sought project proposals to partially fund new, cleaner versions of fossil fuel on-road and off-road equipment and vehicles in Minnesota.
Advisory group exists to elevate environmental justice as an agency priority and to integrate environmental justice considerations into agency programs and decision-making.
Water scientists from the MPCA published four watershed reports in 2025, updating the data we need to keep Minnesota’s waters clean and protected.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency seeks public comment on a draft industrial wastewater permit that provides various improvements to better protect the environment and human health at Northshore Mining Co.'s taconite processing facility and tailings basin in Silver Bay, Minnesota.
Minnesota’s biosolids PFAS strategy requires all biosolids intended for land application be tested for PFAS before use and response actions based on sample results.
Through this Minnesota climate smart food systems (CSFS) grant, the MPCA has approximately $4 million available for projects related to Tribal food sovereignty that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These grants will be awarded to Native-led organizations that work with Native populations not on reservation lands.
The MPCA had just over $800,000 available to support waste reduction and reuse projects across the state.