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Significant restoration work by organizations in the area have made the south branch of the Buffalo River a water-quality success story.
The MPCA regulates both underground and aboveground commercial storage tanks above a certain size that hold petroleum or hazardous liquids.
A waste is any material that can no longer be used for its original intended purpose. The type of waste generated can include recyclables, solid waste, and hazardous wastes, which may be subject to specific management and disposal requirements.
The MPCA has developed best practices for vapor intrusion mitigation and public communication work used by the agencies and our contractors.
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…
Privacy rightsSeveral federal and state laws protect your privacy rights regarding the information the MPCA has about you. At times, an MPCA staff member may ask you to provide information about…
MPCA had approximately $1 million for projects that increase the efficiency or effectiveness of waste reduction, reuse, recycling, or composting programs in Greater Minnesota.
Prior to submitting this form, please verify that the information you are requesting is not already available on the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency science and data page.Requester informationThe…
The U.S. EPA approved Minnesota's Statewide Mercury Total Maximum Daily Load study in March 2007.
Two small creeks in the Nemadji River watershed are cleaner, and some fish have returned, after restoration work that the MPCA took part in.
Environmental information and resources for the biochar industry.
The Upper/Lower Red Lake Watershed covers more than 1.2 million acres and is home to Upper and Lower Red Lakes, the two largest bodies of water within the state.
While hundreds of fish kills occur in Minnesota every year, mostly in lakes and ponds, fish kills on trout streams in southeast Minnesota are much less common.
What is the blue-green scum that looks like spilled paint?In lakes that are over-enriched with phosphorus and nitrogen, algae tend to prosper and create algae blooms. Blue-green algae and one type in…
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.
RoundtableRx is a nonprofit operating the Minnesota Medication Repository Program, which reduces pharmaceutical waste by collecting excess medication for redistribution. The MPCA recently provided a $52,910 grant for education and outreach to help solve the pharmaceutical waste issue in Minnesota.
$5.5 million grant from the U.S. EPA will help three Minnesota school districts partially electrify their bus fleets.
Minnesota has revised state water quality standards to incorporate a tiered aquatic life use (TALU) framework for rivers and streams.
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.
Permits help the MPCA protect the environment.