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Underground storage tank (UST) facilities must designate owners, operators, or employees as Class A, Class B, and Class C operators.
Superfund requires specific investigation and cleanup processes, designates parties that are legally responsible for the cleanup, and provides funds for certain types of cleanups under Minnesota’s Environmental Response and Liability Act (MERLA).
MPCA has released the first in a series of reports on industrial uses of PFAS in Minnesota and identifying alternatives.
Minnesota water infrastructure projects in St. Cloud and Pipestone garner EPA’s top awards for innovation, excellence in protecting environment, health.
A successful cleanup of contaminated land along the Cedar River in Austin caps a long history of industrial pollution.
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.
Feedlot nutrient and manure management
The MPCA fined Regions Hospital $100,000 for improperly disposing of infectious waste in its mixed municipal solid waste in 2024.
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.
BMPs required to manage the slurry to comply with Minnesota statute and agency rules to protect water quality.
Apply for funds to help assess sites with known or suspected contamination and develop remediation plans.
Training resources for feedlot officers in Minnesota.
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.
The 2026 Minnesota Legislature granted the MPCA’s request for over $2 million to provide clean drinking water and pay for a watermain extension to Blaine’s municipal water system, hook up homes in the mitigation area to the municipal water system, and pay to seal the existing private water wells.
The MPCA issued a new air quality permit for this manufacturing facility in White Bear Township.
MPCA's leadership team.
As part of the PFAS pollution prevention law called Amara’s Law, manufacturers are required to report intentionally added PFAS in products sold in Minnesota and pay a fee. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has extended the reporting due date to Sept. 15, 2026.
MPCA's fish sampling process and why we do it
New Resource Management Report explores how Minnesota could greatly reduce landfill disposal by 2045 through policy changes, major system investments, and performance from emerging technologies.
Dem-Con Landfill proposes to build a new municipal solid waste landfill at its environmental campus near Shakopee. It plans to convert 2.2 million cubic yards covering an approximately 81-acre fill area of its permitted construction and demolition landfill into a new municipal solid waste landfill. The creation of a new MSW landfill of this size requires the project to go through the environmental impact statement process.