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The MPCA provides climate change technical assistance to Minnesotan, including one-on-one consultation or small group facilitation, to assess current capacity, build on strengths, and address underlying needs.
Resources developed by the Minnesota Department of Health and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to help you spread the word about how Minnesota will reduce “forever chemicals” through Amara’s Law.
The triennial standards review (TSR) gives the public a formal opportunity to provide wide-ranging comments about water quality standards.
The MPCA provides educational information about the status of Minnesota’s air, water, land, and climate and can point you toward beneficial actions you can take as students, teachers, and life-long learners interested in Minnesota’s sustainable future.
A series of new culverts in Lake County reconnect brook trout habitat and provide resilience to climate change for area roads.
Water quality trading is a market-based approach to the protection and restoration of surface waters, another tool to be used in conjunction with existing voluntary, regulatory, and financial assistance programs.
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.
To reduce the pollution that causes climate change, Minnesota has set goals to cut our collective greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and track progress.
Pesticide NPDES permit steps to compliance Step 4: Report adverse pesticide incidents
St. Paul Brass manufactures brass, bronze, and aluminum castings in the Frogtown neighborhood of Saint Paul, an environmental justice area.
MPCA permits are required for construction, modification, and operation of facilities where solid waste is treated, stored, processed, transferred, or disposed.
In Minnesota, certain tasks in the design, installation, repair, maintenance, operation, or inspection of septic systems can only be done by certified individuals. Find out what training, experience, and exams are required to fulfill the requirements for certification.
Minnesota continues to reduce industrial and transportation air pollutants that have the highest potential health risks. Investment in clean air for all Minnesotans is a top priority for the MPCA and Governor Walz.
Throughout her life, Jen Widmer has felt a deep connection to wetlands. As a child, she played broomball on the ice of a wetland near her home. She once attempted swimming in the wetland but was…
The MPCA gave an environmental award to the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, which sold land so it could become a watershed wetland in Baxter. The project is being finalized in summer 2024.
The MPCA proposes adding 46 new impaired bodies of water and removing 45 impairments from bodies of water from the IWL, the most removals in a two-year cycle since the state began the IWL program in 1992.
The MPCA announced cleanup plans for the defunct Hibbing Gas Manufacturing Plant site, explained in a draft Minnesota Decision Document that is available for public comment until July 9, 2026.
Minnesota's strategic, coordinated approach to protecting families and communities from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Systems to treat drinking water have been installed to address groundwater contamination in two St. Louis Park and three Edina municipal wells.
Researchers collect samples of sediment from the bottom of Lake of the Woods in 2024. (Photo courtesy of St. Croix Watershed Research Station) After years of study…