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The MPCA's new online training will help small businesses adapt to the effects of climate change and become more resilient.

Reducing campus discards and raising awareness of sustainability through outreach and community engagement

Protecting and restoring water quality is one of the MPCA's core areas of focus.

Important details to help make your e-Service submittal go as smoothly as possible.

Austin's municipal wastewater treatment plant discharged ammonia and fecal coliform over permitted limits into the Cedar River.

Environmental information and resources for gas stations.

Lake of the Woods is a big lake with a big problem caused by one of nature’s smallest organisms: algae. Scientists from the MPCA and the Science Museum are working together to understand why.

This year’s forum will focus on ways to reduce nitrogen in Minnesota’s water, and ways that agricultural and urban partners are working together to improve water quality.

Resources for recycling market development

This year’s theme is Advancing Nutrient Trading with Sustainable Farming and Conservation Practices.

Removing of an old dam and restoring a creek's curves are improving habitat and water quality in the Pomme de Terre River Watershed.

The MPCA provides financial and technical assistance to local government and other water resource managers to address nonpoint-source water pollution.

Hot, sunny weather brings the possibility of air quality alerts due to ozone. But what exactly is ozone?

The MPCA created a statewide inventory of streams that have been hydrologically modified: channelized, ditched, or impounded

Minnesota samples a network of shallow monitoring wells designed to provide early detection of contamination in the groundwater.

To reduce contamination at compost facilities, Minnesota’s compostable product labeling law requires all bags, packaging, and food service products labeled as “compostable” and sold in Minnesota after Jan. 1, 2025, to meet certain requirements.

Minnesota’s Continuous Nitrate Sensor Network generates publicly available water quality data on nitrate levels in our surface water.

Determine what type(s) of water quality permit is required at facilities that mine construction sand and gravel; industrial sand; quarry limestone, granite or dimension stone; operate hot mix asphalt production areas; produce concrete block, brick and other products; and/or produce ready-mix concrete.

KODA Energy violated its air permit in Scott County from June 2023 to February 2024, according to a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) enforcement investigation. The investigation found KODA energy was burning waste-treated corn and should have submitted a major permit amendment before burning an industrial solid as a waste-to-energy incineration facility.

Cities fined over $12,000 apiece for municipal wastewater violations