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State agencies, counties, municipalities, nonprofit organizations, and many others are engaged in protecting Minnesota lakes.
Some permittees are receiving phishing attacks claiming to be from the EPA. How to spot a phishing attack and what to do about it.
As part of our commitment to continuous improvement, transparency, certainty, and customer service, the MPCA is improving the way we track and administer permits. These efforts are part of periodical…
Details on major and minor modifications of a solid waste management facility permit.
All distribution media products must be registered with the MPCA.
The Otter Tail River Watershed encompasses three different ecoregions, covering more than 1.2 million acres in west-central Minnesota.
The MPCA completed 68 enforcement cases for water quality, air quality, hazardous waste, stormwater, and wastewater violations in the first half of 2025.
Minnesota rules require many facilities that produce air emissions to conduct performance testing.
MPCA established a network of long-term biological monitoring stations that represent a variety of stream types in their most natural condition.
The Olmsted Soil and Water Conservation District's Soil Health Farm demonstrates how farmers can benefit from practices that also provide resilience to climate change.
Environmental information for craft breweries, distilleries, wineries, and cideries, and for home brewers who want to start commercial production.
One of the most basic forms of air pollution, haze reduces visibility in many cities and scenic areas within the United States. Haze-causing pollutants come from a variety of sources, both natural and man-made, including motor vehicles, electricity generation, industrial facilities, agriculture, and wildfires.
The Rapid River watershed covers 573,060 acres in northern Minnesota. Over 79% of the land in the watershed is owned or managed by state entities.
Keep It Clean focuses on the growing problem of garbage and human waste left on the ice by anglers and other visitors during ice fishing season.
Stormwater runoff is a leading source of water pollution, and the state general permit is designed to reduce the amount of sediment and other pollutants entering state waters.
The MPCA is developing a sulfate multi-discharger variance (MDV) for wastewater facilities that are currently unable to meet the state water quality standard for sulfate.
Allows new and expanding wastewater treatment facilities to receive a discharge permit prior to completion of an applicable phosphorus-related TMDL. Through pre-TMDL phosphorus trading a, a new or expanding facility may increase its phosphorus discharge by purchasing a phosphorus reduction from another source.
Chrome-plating facility in St. Louis Park is the alleged source of pollution in local lakes.
Disposing of wastes from a natural disaster or large fire
The MPCA had at least $1 million to support projects that will build lasting capacity to preserve standing tree stock and manage increasing volumes of wood waste.