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We Are Water MN travels to Stillwater to focus on the St. Croix River, featuring artwork by painter Kami Mendlik.

What consumers should know about new Minnesota laws prohibiting PFAS in consumer products and the MPCA’s efforts to minimize PFAS pollution by keeping it out of commonly used household products.

Data shows that ice cover on Minnesota's lakes doesn't last as long as it used to. That means a shorter ice fishing season, yes, but it also has implications for the environment and Minnesota's fish and wildlife.

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

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.

Before Laura Mendoza Romero got involved with shoreline restoration, she remembers going on boat rides and seeing all the different landscapes along the shore. Some houses you could barely see…

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.

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

To prevent food waste at its veterans homes, the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs used a $185,000 MPCA grant to purchase new meal-ordering technology.

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

Designing stormwater systems to handle the challenges of climate change differs in every community across the state. Here’s how one community is meeting that challenge

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

Recycling is good for Minnesota's economy. It supports more than 60,000 jobs in our state, paying almost $3.4 billion in wages and adds nearly $15.7 billion to Minnesota's economy.

From shorter winter ice seasons to shifting fish populations, climate change is transforming Minnesota lakes as we know them.

Volunteers across Minnesota’s 87 counties have been collecting pine needles from coniferous trees in their neighborhoods to help the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency better understand how to protect Minnesotans from PFAS pollution.

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.

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.

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.

Willernie-based Revitri won the MPCA’s Green and Sustainable Chemistry Prize for its innovative manufactured glass beads

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.