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Trichloroethylene and perchloroethylene have contaminated groundwater and caused vapor intrusion issues at this site.
Volunteers across Minnesota’s 87 counties have been collecting pine needles from coniferous trees in their neighborhoods to help the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency better understand how to protect Minnesotans from PFAS pollution.
Healthy land and soil is essential for thriving Minnesota communities. It drives economic development and opportunity, improves our health, and contributes to clean water for drinking and recreation…
Minnesota’s policy is to eliminate or reduce the use, generation, and release of toxic pollutants and hazardous wastes at their source.
Sugar beet processing facility emitted higher levels of hydrogen sulfide and particulates than its permit allows between 2020 and 2022. The Polk-Norman-Mahnomen Community Health Board will receive 40% of the $350,000 penalty according to a new Minnesota statute enacted in 2023.
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.
From shorter winter ice seasons to shifting fish populations, climate change is transforming Minnesota lakes as we know them.
MPCA's fish sampling process and why we do it
With completion of the EAW review process, the MPCA will move forward with issuing West River Dairy’s feedlot permit on June 23.
Northern Iron operates an iron foundry in an environmental justice area in Saint Paul's Payne-Phalen neighborhood.
The Precision Plating site in north Minneapolis was formerly home to a metal plating facility where solvents and metals were released into the soil and groundwater.
The MPCA provides assistance and training for program managers and operators of household hazardous waste (HHW) facilities to ensure compliance with environmental and worker protection laws and regulations.
Minnesota has a new law that prohibits nonessential use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
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.
New easy-to-access trainings help small businesses figure out if they are subject to MPCA regulations, and how to become more sustainable.
The MPCA has announced that 11 grant recipients will receive a total of $5.3 million for projects that build lasting capacity to support recycling markets in Minnesota.
Going beyond compliance yields benefits like cost savings, improved health, greater efficiency, marketing advantages, enhanced employee morale, and stronger business resilience.
MPCA established a network of long-term biological monitoring stations that represent a variety of stream types in their most natural condition.
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 new commercial organics collection will service a 20- to 30-stop route across both Hubbard and Beltrami counties.