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Bagnado, a 25-foot-tall spinning tornado of plastic bags, will return to Eco Experience at the Minnesota State Fair

Edina-based startup, Naware, recently took the $10,000 Green and Sustainable Chemistry Prize, sponsored by the MPCA as part of the MN Cup, for combining two unlikely technologies to replace herbicides in lawncare with a more environmentally friendly alternative.

Profile of John Weiss, a volunteer with the MPCA's Volunteer Water Monitoring Program

Minnesota GreenCorps member Leslie Alcantar Mejia helped Hennepin County toward its goal of planting 1 million trees during her service term.

Streams of the Upper St. Croix Watershed are among the most biologically intact, healthy, and resilient of watersheds in Minnesota.

The triennial standards review (TSR) gives the public a formal opportunity to provide wide-ranging comments about water quality standards.

The MPCA is committed to engaging broadly with the public and ensuring that residents affected by its decisions have a voice in its processes.

Environmental information and permits that affect grain elevators, feed mills and fertilizer mixing plants.

To commemorate the 2023 fish sampling season, Martha Young enlisted her mother to create a piece of seed art that will go on display at the 2024 Eco Experience

Abdirahman Hassan Abdirahman Hassan’s story begins in Mombasa, Kenya, a coastal city where the presence of the Indian Ocean was a childhood highlight. “I grew up…

The Cottonwood River is located in southwestern Minnesota in the counties of Brown, Cottonwood, Lyon, Murray, and Redwood. It begins near Balaton in southwest Lyon County.

Each year, Minnesotans throw away more than 850,000 tons of recyclables, worth around $153 million. Here's how we're reducing those numbers in Greater Minnesota.

MPCA's Closed Landfill Program is a voluntary program established in 1994 to properly close, monitor, and maintain Minnesota's closed municipal sanitary landfills.

The MPCA and its many partners collect a wide variety of data on environmental conditions and pollution sources.

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

Minnesota state agencies are working together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.

Solving the problem of oversalted sidewalks is elementary!

The MPCA is leading multiple initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector.

Removing Middle Lake from the impaired waters list required wrangling with a bottom feeder, the invasive carp.

Financial assistance for SSTS work is targeted to units of local government.