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The MPCA closed 118 enforcement cases for water quality, air quality, waste, stormwater, and wastewater violations in the second half of 2023.
The MPCA regulates both underground and aboveground commercial storage tanks above a certain size that hold petroleum or hazardous liquids.
The MPCA completed 68 enforcement cases for water quality, air quality, hazardous waste, stormwater, and wastewater violations in the first half of 2025.
Important details to help make your e-Service administrative submittal go as smoothly as possible.
Minnesota rules require that anyone installing, repairing, or removing regulated underground storage tanks be certified by the MPCA.
Healthy recycling markets divert materials from the waste stream, convert the materials into commodities, and supply them to manufacturers for the production of new products. The businesses that…
This permit aims to reduce phosphorus discharged by point sources to the Minnesota River Basin. This webpage contains links to the permit and its associated forms and fact sheets.
The MPCA’s Smart Salting program helps cut down on chloride pollution by training snowplow drivers and municipalities to use less salt on the roadways.
Water softeners produce much of the chloride that pollutes Minnesota’s waters. An MPCA grant aims to reduce that pollution with water softener replacement rebate programs.
Answers to questions frequently asked by municipalities about management of contaminated sediments in stormwater collection systems that they own and operate.
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.
Requirements for discharges from a project site and/or management control site(s).
Elk River Landfill, Inc. proposes a northward expansion of its landfill into Livonia Township.
Contaminated land creates significant problems for our health, environment, and economy in Minnesota. By cleaning up problem areas and protecting against future contamination, we can make land safe…
MPCA awards $2.4 million to eight organizations for projects focused on sustainable building and materials management strategies that reduce waste and increase deconstruction, salvage, and reuse in Minnesota.
MPCA releases initial environmental assessment worksheet for a new municipal solid waste landfill proposed by Dem-Con at its environmental campus near Shakopee.
The MPCA uses the Environmental Quality Information System (EQuIS) to store water quality data from more than 17,000 Minnesota sampling locations.
This advisory board includes 18 individuals representing a wide range of impacted parties under the Packaging Waste and Cost Reduction Act.
The Legislature has given the MPCA the authority to develop rules to protect state environmental resources.
Karst near Oxbow Park and Zollman Zoo, host of the We Are Water MN traveling exhibit. Phil George, who lives in rural Byron, Minnesota, has always felt a deep…