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Guidance for small businesses on reporting air emissions.

Regular people are pretty good at judging water quality, and new research from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) proves it.

The MPCA intends to repeal Minnesota Rules, parts 7023.0150, 7023.0200, 7023.0250, and 7023.0300 relating to Clean Cars Minnesota (CCM).

Planned amendments to Minn. Rules ch. 7050 affect the Class 1 beneficial use, which protects waters (both surface and groundwater) used as a source for domestic consumption.

The MPCA is committed to engaging broadly with the public and ensuring that residents affected by its decisions have a voice in its processes.

$5.5 million grant from the U.S. EPA will help three Minnesota school districts partially electrify their bus fleets.

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.

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

Carba, a Minnesota-based company focused on carbon-capture technology, took home the MPCA’s Green and Sustainable Chemistry Prize at the 2023 MN Cup

The MPCA is granting $4.4m from VW settlement funds to replace dirty diesel trucks with cleaner drivetrains. Similar previous grants show how the program works.

Plastic can be recycled, but it’s often not, a situation the MPCA aims to resolve with grants to develop markets for recycled plastic.

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

The MPCA has begun work to implement a groundbreaking new law to remedy Minnesotans’ disproportionate exposure to pollutants.

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

Spilled mercury, even small quantities in the home, should be cleaned up quickly and properly so that people don't come in contact with it or breathe its vapors.

Businesses can find many ways to increase competitiveness and boost productivity.

Thanks to years of restoration efforts, the MPCA confirmed the Kabekona River meets water quality standards for recreation and proposed its removal from the 2026 impaired waters list.

The Shell Rock River begins at Albert Lea Lake in Freeborn County in south-central Minnesota, a few miles from the Iowa border. It flows 113 miles into Iowa, where it enters the Cedar River. In Minnesota, the Shell Rock drains 246 square miles (160,000 acres), all in Freeborn County.

Thermal paper is thin with a slick feel or sheen finish and discolors easily when scratched.

The MPCA created a statewide inventory of streams that have been hydrologically modified: channelized, ditched, or impounded