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The Minnesota State Implementation Plan (SIP) is focused on the six criteria air pollutants regulated by national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS): ground-level ozone, fine particles, lead, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and sulfur dioxide.

Smart Salting is a suite of techniques that minimize the environmental and economic impacts of chloride while still meeting public needs.

The Small Business Ombudsman is an independent entity responsible for reviewing environmental regulatory activities to ensure that they are fair, reasonable and appropriate for Minnesota's small businesses that have to comply with environmental regulations.

Financing is available for public entities in Minnesota to expand or improve stormwater infrastructure.

Medicines flushed down the drain can contaminate water, which can hurt fish and other aquatic wildlife, and end up in our drinking water.

Our strategic plan has six broad goals that, when taken together, map our work for five years. MPCA’s strategic plan guides the agency’s work from Jan. 1, 2024, to Dec. 31, 2028. These goals are…

All distribution media products must be registered with the MPCA.

The MPCA today released its final supplemental environmental impact statement analysis for the proposed expansion of the Burnsville Sanitary Landfill, determining the expansion would not affect groundwater quality.

Roundup of key environmental justice laws passed by the Legislature in 2023

The MPCA's Petroleum Remediation Program addresses risks to people and the environment from contamination caused by leaking petroleum storage tanks.

The MPCA monitors and assesses lakes around the state to determine if they meet water quality standards.

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.

Volunteers can search for a lake or stream site that works for them and sign up to monitor it.

The MPCA offers environmental audits to help businesses and organizations examine how well they are complying with environmental regulations, and correct any problems that are identified.

Located in southeast Minnesota and northeast Iowa, the Upper Wapsipinicon watershed lies within the Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Drift Plains portion of the Western Corn Belt Plains ecoregion.

Minnesota's strategic, coordinated approach to protecting families and communities from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

The MPCA is committed to delivering a pollution reduction program that benefits all Minnesotans and works diligently to incorporate their ideas and opinions into our projects and plans. To develop…

The MPCA sought a contractor to lead the effort to identify and replace tribal members' old wood stoves that are not certified by the U.S. EPA.

Septic tank installation fees and system abandonment

Facilities in specific industries that store materials, waste, or equipment outdoors are subject to industrial stormwater regulations administered by the MPCA.