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Stephen Funk shared his story as part of We Are Water MN, a traveling exhibit and community engagement program that explores Minnesotans’ relationships with water.

Composting your Halloween jack-o'-lantern is a good way to keep it out of the landfill. So is giving it to a local farmer.

Answers to common questions about the Construction Stormwater Permit application

A stormwater system upgrade in Duluth was expanded with the help of an MPCA employee who tapped into available funding. It protects Lake Superior and can serve as an example for other cities and counties.

Kohlman Lake, one of 27 bodies of water to come off the impaired waters list this year, did so with substantial help from the Clean Water Fund.

Water softeners produce much of the chloride that pollutes Minnesota’s waters. An MPCA grant aims to reduce that pollution with water softener replacement rebate programs.

Underground storage tank (UST) facilities must designate owners, operators, or employees as Class A, Class B, and Class C operators.

The MPCA is offering rebates to small businesses across the state to buy and sell lead-free fishing tackle, part of the state’s Get the Lead Out program

Mankato nonprofit South Central Minnesota Food Recovery used MPCA grant money to build out a network to save food from the landfill and distribute it to people in need.

As part of the MN Cup competition, MPCA offers a Sustainable Chemistry Prize of $10,000 to technologies and products that were designed using one or more green chemistry principles or that demonstrate safer or more sustainable chemistry than those already on the market.

Three members of MN GreenCorps worked through the Minneapolis Public Schools' free meal box program to promote waste reduction and recycling.

Image Air quality is expected to reach the orange AQI category for all of Minnesota, which is unhealthy for sensitive groups.The Minnesota Pollution…

Under the new EPR program, Minnesota is phasing out all product packaging sold in our state that is not refillable, reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2032.

The MPCA had approximately $1.89 million available to install EV direct current fast-charging stations in public places.

Robyn Dwight is the 2024 winner of the Community Conservationist Award given by the Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts and MPCA. She helped expand Keep It Clean, which keeps garbage off lake ice.

Minnesota GreenCorps members serving with the City of Minneapolis developed a mini-course for residents about responsible use of deicing salt.

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.

The Minnesota Repair Project is one of several initiatives that received a grant from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency aimed at reducing waste and boosting reuse across the state.

Question and answer session with Addison Otto, a rule coordinator with the MPCA, about her work with the agency and how her hobby farm informs her work.

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.