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Details on sampling and monitoring requirements of your industrial stormwater permit.

Groundwater is not a static thing, but moves around in the layers of rock and soil beneath our feet. How does this affect the work to treat contaminated groundwater and protect drinking water?

To ensure that every person in Minnesota has healthy air to breathe, the MPCA studies, monitors, and regulates air pollutants, primarily in three categories: criteria pollutants, air toxics, and greenhouse gases.

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

MPCA permits are required to both build and operate landfills in Minnesota.

All distribution media products must be registered with the MPCA.

Initiatives passed during the 2023 legislative session invest hundreds of millions of dollars to advance Minnesota’s Climate Action Framework.

MPCA keeps its public data easily accessible for convenient use.

Find out whether your feedlot needs to register, to get an environmental review, or apply for a permit.

Minnesota law requires that people notify the MPCA (through the Minnesota Duty Officer) immediately when more than five gallons of petroleum or any amount of any substance under their control is released into the environment that could cause pollution of waters of the state.

When food spoils or is thrown away before we eat it, the resources that went into creating the food are wasted.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is committed to ensuring that every Minnesotan has healthy air, sustainable lands, clean water, and a better climate.

The triennial standards review offers every Minnesotan the opportunity to comment on essentially every water quality standard the agency defines to protect the waters that they drink, swim in, and fish from.

What is the blue-green scum that looks like spilled paint?In lakes that are over-enriched with phosphorus and nitrogen, algae tend to prosper and create algae blooms. Blue-green algae and one type in…

Northern Iron operates an iron foundry in an environmental justice area in Saint Paul's Payne-Phalen neighborhood.

Minnesota rules identify 16 standing beneficial uses for which waste generators or end users can simply follow the applicable rules without contacting the MPCA.

Enbridge Energy is continuing restoration work around its new Line 3 crude oil pipeline across Minnesota. The new line replaces an aging Line 3 and began operating in October 2021, after Enbridge completed the project’s construction phase.

The kind of permit a facility needs depends on how much air pollution the facility could emit based on its equipment or processes.

A new facility that will process organic materials through anaerobic digesters in Shakopee.

Minnesota industrial stormwater permittees in certain industries to monitor for PFAS in their stormwater runoff or snow.