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Image In Minnesota, 2,469 schools serve more than 898,000 K-12 students and employ thousands of teachers and staff. An MPCA study found that Minnesota…
When leaves fall on streets, sidewalks, and other hardscapes in urban areas, they wash into the storm drains and end up in lakes and rivers where they feed algae growth. The algae then decomposes and uses up oxygen that fish and native plants need.
“Area C” is the name given to Ford Motor Company’s former industrial waste dump on the floodplain of the Mississippi River, at the base of the bluff below the former Twin Cities Assembly Plant in Saint Paul.
Minnesota’s extended producer responsibility bill for packaging, food packaging, and paper products requires a producer responsibility organization to reduce the environmental and human health impacts of these materials.
Information about a variety of initiatives in Minnesota related to PFAS pollution.
Reusing and recycling materials from construction and demolition (C&D) can help address pressing disposal and contamination issues in Minnesota, and have significant economic and environmental benefits.
Permits help the MPCA protect the environment.
Minnesota rivers are shrinking in the drought; some have their lowest flows in decades. What will be the long term effects?
Minnesota law requires that people notify the MPCA (through the Minnesota Duty Officer) immediately when more than five gallons of petroleum or any amount of any substance under their control is released into the environment that could cause pollution of waters of the state.
State will begin engagement next month on an updated framework set to be released in 2025
Frequently asked questions about SSTS certification and licensing.
MPCA seeks public comment on a proposed air permit for the U.S. Steel Keetac mining facility in Keewatin, Minn.
Up to $20 million in grants for projects that restore and enhance aquatic resources, wildlife, habitat, fishing, and outdoor recreational opportunities in portions of Washington, Ramsey and Dakota counties and downstream areas of the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers affected by PFAS released by 3M.
The MPCA's chloride reduction program assists communities and organizations across Minnesota in identifying sources of chloride.
Sandy and Jay Boss Febbo shared their story as part of We Are Water MN, a traveling exhibit and community engagement program that explores Minnesotans’ relationships with water.
Minnesota businesses, organizations, and municipalities seeking or holding MPCA wastewater permits are charged two basic types of permit fees: application fees and annual fees.
The amount of hazardous waste you generate will dictate your waste generator status.
State and federal permits and regulations that are designed to protect groundwater and surface water (lakes, rivers, streams, and wetlands) apply to specific facilities and processes that could pose…
Image The MPCA and the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) regulate the handling of asbestos-containing material in Minnesota, to prevent asbestos…
The MPCA created a statewide inventory of streams that have been hydrologically modified: channelized, ditched, or impounded