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The MPCA has withdrawn proposed rules relating to waste treated seeds.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is planning amendments to rules governing water quality fees (Minn. R. ch. 7002 and 7083).

Environmental information and permits that affect businesses using boilers.

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

A project to address excess sediment and turbidity in the Mississippi River, from Fort Snelling at St. Paul to upper Lake Pepin at Red Wing, based on a site-specific standard developed by the MPCA and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

Through this Minnesota climate smart food systems (CSFS) grant, the MPCA offered approximately $10 million in grant funding for projects that will expand Minnesota’s infrastructure capacity for composting source-separated organic materials (SSOM) with a focus on wasted food and food scraps.

Wild rice is an important part of the biological community in many Minnesota lakes, streams, and wetlands, and a cultural resource to many, particularly members of the Dakota and Ojibwe Tribal Nations in Minnesota.

Study funded by the $850 million settlement that Minnesota reached with 3M in 2018  focused on the area served by the Valley Branch Watershed District’s Project 1007 rainwater conveyance system in the East Metro.

A legacy of trichloroethylene disposal at the General Mills/Henkel Corp. Superfund Site at 2010 East Hennepin created an area of groundwater contamination that has led to vapors traveling upward through the soil, where it can enter houses and buildings.

Implementing water quality standards come with tangible costs and benefits. Costs such as taxes to residents, regulated parties, and communities help achieve benefits such as increased property values, tourism, and protecting human health.

Agropur Inc., doing business as Le Sueur Cheese Company, land applied too much industrial byproduct, resulting in rates of nitrogen and phosphorus that exceeded the allowed limits by more than 10 percent. The violations occurred in 2022, near its cheese production facility in Le Sueur, Minnesota.

Tools to help small businesses determine if they need an air emissions permit and/or track compliance with their current air emissions permit.

MPCA's Closed Landfill Program is a voluntary program established in 1994 to properly close, monitor, and maintain Minnesota's closed municipal sanitary landfills.

Studies of Minnesota’s waters show that contaminants of emerging concern are widespread in the state’s lakes and rivers.

Requirements for discharges from a project site and/or management control site(s).

The MPCA studies Minnesota's solid waste composition and processes to inform policy recommendations, legislative proposals, education and outreach messages, and waste reduction efforts.

Resources for clients of the SSTS program

MPCA’s work on the climate-smart food systems grant from the EPA is ongoing amid strong interest

The MPCA had at least $1 million to support projects that will build lasting capacity to preserve standing tree stock and manage increasing volumes of wood waste.

MPCA plans to amend its 20-year old rules governing land treatment of petroleum-contaminated soil.