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In Minnesota, commercial entities that produce any amount of hazardous waste are regulated as hazardous-waste "generators."

Permit  2025 Multi-Sector General Permit for Industrial Stormwater (wq-strm3-102g) Effective June 1, 2025 Updates and new…

The Air We Breathe report looks at public health and air quality data to gauge how air pollution is affecting our health in Minnesota.

Learn what you can do to protect yourself and your community from environmental problems caused by flooding.

Forms, guidance, and assistance to apply for an air quality permit.

Construction and demolition projects produce twice the amount of waste of household trash every year. A new MPCA grant aims to reduce that amount by funding innovative building material reuse projects.

Create an editable spreadsheet of details about your facility to make calculations of emissions.

The MPCA uses the EQuIS database to store and manage monitoring data and associated laboratory results from streams, lakes, groundwater, ambient air, soil, sediment, and gas, collected through MPCA programs and partnerships.

Recycling materials into new products benefits both our environment and our economy.

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.

Emissions generated from gasoline and diesel powered vehicles are the greatest source of air pollution in Minnesota

Vapor intrusion occurs when chemical vapors migrate from contaminated groundwater through the soil into the basements or foundations of buildings.

All distribution media products must be registered with the MPCA.

Intense storms of late spring can wash soil and other pollutants into rivers. Producers can use several techniques to protect their soil and water quality.

MPCA guidance for evaluating when closed landfills may exit the postclosure care phase.

MPCA awards first of two rounds of Tribal technical assistance grants intended to advance environmental work on reservations and in Tribal communities

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA)’s draft wastewater permit for the 3M facility at Cottage Grove adds new water quality protections for the Mississippi River and improves accountability through monitoring and reporting requirements. The draft permit is one of the most rigorous in state history and mandates the removal of certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to levels below detection.

East Central Solid Waste Commission (ECSWC) proposes to add 1.7 million cubic yards of MSW capacity to their landfill near Mora, Minnesota, which requires an environmental impact statement.

State and community leaders visited Faribault and Northfield to observe Minnesota climate resiliency efforts in action.

MPCA investigation found stormwater permit violations that occurred during a construction project in 2025, with sediment-laden stormwater entering a stream at a construction site in Chaska.