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Spring is the time for awakening gardens from their slumber and cleaning up the yard. It’s also a good time to start thinking about a backyard compost pile. Here’s how to build one that’ll enhance soil health and that your neighbors won’t mind.

The MPCA plans to amend Minnesota Rules chapter 7152 on the Minnesota Dry Cleaner Reimbursement Account to ensure consistency and compliance with state statutes and rules by updating the reimbursement rates for consultant and contractor services for environmental response action costs.

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

The Minnesota GreenCorps program, coordinated by the MPCA, aims to preserve and protect Minnesota’s environment while training a new generation of environmental professionals.

Solving the problem of oversalted sidewalks is elementary!

MPCA guidance on petroleum site investigation and remediation, reporting, and more.

MPCA guidance for evaluating when closed landfills may exit the postclosure care phase.

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.

$4.85 million to run community air monitoring projects in the 7-county Metropolitan Area (counties of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington).

The Soiled Undies exhibit at the Eco Experience at the Minnesota State Fair might look off-putting at first, but it's a good demonstration of the importance of soil health and how healthy soil can help the environment.

Increasing organics collection and processing infrastructure is necessary to meet statewide recycling goals

In Minnesota, handlers of oil and hazardous substances are required to prepare for potential spills and take steps to prevent them.

The MPCA has important roles in protecting and restoring waters in degraded conditions.

Industrial Stormwater Steps to Compliance Step 4: Create SWPPP, choose BMPs

This advisory board includes 18 individuals representing a wide range of impacted parties under the Packaging Waste and Cost Reduction Act.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) today announced a new initiative to monitor water quality throughout the entire Mississippi River within Minnesota’s borders for the first time in a single year.

Minnesota passed a law in 2023 that restricts the use of lead and cadmium in 15 categories of consumer products, including toys and school supplies.

Partner with an award-winning exhibition to engage Minnesotans with environmental ideas, challenges, and inspiration for a better future.

Loans of up to $75,000 at zero-percent interest help small businesses purchase equipment to meet or exceed environmental regulations, or to investigate and clean up contaminated sites.

Requirements for discharges from a project site and/or management control site(s).