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MPCA investigation found that Rainy Lake Oil failed to repair a pipe that was leaking diesel fuel underground for more than four months in 2024.

We Are Water MN travels to Leech Lake, where Raining White works to protect and restore manoomin, or wild rice.

Throughout her life, Jen Widmer has felt a deep connection to wetlands. As a child, she played broomball on the ice of a wetland near her home. She once attempted swimming in the wetland but was…

The We Are Water MN exhibit at Art in Motion on the Lake Wobegon Trail in Holdingford runs from April 25 through June 17.

Governor Walz appointed Katrina Kessler as MPCA commissioner effective November 1. Kessler has been serving as an assistant commissioner.

Apply for funds to help assess sites with known or suspected contamination and develop remediation plans.

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.

Young Life Castaway Club violated several wastewater regulations, mainly modifying wastewater treatment systems without approval, between 2019 and 2022 at its youth and family camp on Pelican Lake, just south of Detroit Lakes. These violations carry serious risks of harm to the environment.

The Upper Iowa River is a 156-mile-long tributary of the Mississippi River that rises in Mower County in southeastern Minnesota near the Iowa border. It then flows south through three Iowa counties before flowing into the Mississippi. It drains nearly 641,000 acres (1,005 square miles).

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.

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 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.

Communities facing the impacts of air pollution will soon have new resources to understand and improve the air quality in their neighborhoods after the MPCA awarded $…

MPCA invited grant proposals from public, private, and nonprofit delivery and commercial service providers to fund cleaner transportation vehicles.

Implementing water quality standards come with tangible costs and benefits. Costs such as taxes to residents, regulated parties, and communities help achieve benefits such as increased property values, tourism, and protecting human health.

The MPCA has announced that 7 grant recipients will receive a total of $4.5 million for projects that expand or improve the efficiency of organics management operations in Minnesota.

Waterways in the northeastern part of the state are generally in better condition than those in the southern, central, and western regions.

Best practices for SSTS installations drafted by St. Louis County, Minn., in 2008 based on the experiences of SSTS installers and inspectors.

Guidance for small businesses on reporting air emissions.

In addition to the vessel requirements in the EPA VGP and Minnesota’s ballast water general permit, vessels must follow the requirements in Minnesota Statutes and Minnesota’s 401 certification of the VGP.