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Remediation guidance and resources

The MPCA has developed guidance on a number of topics to assist real estate developers, environmental engineers, remediation consultants, and others in addressing brownfields and contaminated sites.

MN Cup Sustainable Chemistry Prize

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.

Do I need an air permit?

Determine if your facility requires an air permit and, if so, which permit type may be the best fit for your business.

Closed: East Metro PFAS forensics

The MPCA sought proposals from qualified responders to conduct an environmental forensics evaluation using non-targeted analysis techniques for identifying sources of non-aqueous film forming foam (non-AFFF) per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination in water.

Machining operation fined $80,000 for air, hazardous waste, and industrial stormwater violations at its five Minnesota facilities

TEAM Industries, with machining operations in Audubon, Bagley, Cambridge, Detroit Lakes, and Park Rapids, paid $80,000 in fines for air, hazardous waste, and industrial stormwater violations.

Careers

Join our team! Open positions and general opportunities at the Pollution Control Agency

How Minnesota passed the country’s first ban on trichloroethylene

Less than three years after Minnesota passed the country's first ban on TCE, a carcinogenic solvent, facilities around the state have removed it from their processes.

Revitri’s tiny recycled glass beads may be key to more efficient cars and houses

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

Little bugs, big indicators: How stream-dwelling creatures shape the impaired waters list

One indicator of impairment that puts a stream on the Impaired Waters List is its macroinvertebrate population. Here's how that works.

Water quality trading

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.

Education

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.

State emergency response contractors

Details on Minnesota state contracts with businesses that provide environmental emergency response services.

MPCA, state agencies reveal statewide blueprint to address PFAS

The MPCA has released Minnesota’s PFAS Blueprint — a strategic, coordinated approach developed by multiple agencies to protect families and communities from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

Land and water conservation leaves a family farm ready for the next generation

The We Are Water MN exhibit at Art in Motion on the Lake Wobegon Trail in Holdingford runs from April 25 through June 17.

A love of place and home motivates scientific inquiry into Leech Lake's wild rice

We Are Water MN travels to Leech Lake, where Raining White works to protect and restore manoomin, or wild rice.

Compliance and enforcement

Environmental rules and regulations are essential tools used to protect Minnesota’s environment, setting standards for environmental quality and limits on pollutants that can be discharged from facilities. The MPCA helps protect our environment by writing and enforcing these rules and regulations.