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The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) today took another step forward in addressing nitrate pollution statewide by issuing updated water permits for about 1,000 large feedlot operations. These permits take effect when the current ones expire.
The Regional Haze Rule requires states to improve visibility in our nation's national parks and wildernesses (Class I areas) and restore them to natural visibility conditions by 2064.
MPCA offers Climate Resilience Planning grants, with a listing of previous grant winners
An air emission permit is a legal document that describes how a facility must operate to meet state and federal air regulations, and to minimize the impact of air emissions on people and the…
Ready-to-run meteorological data suitable for AERMOD.
Details on Minnesota state contracts with businesses that provide environmental emergency response services.
$5.5 million grant from the U.S. EPA will help three Minnesota school districts partially electrify their bus fleets.
Although the impacts from Minnesota’s changing climate are touching all of us, some groups of people are more at risk.
Every two years, MPCA creates a list of impaired waters in the state that do not meet water quality standards.
Green and safer product chemistry is formulating or designing a new product (or reformulating an existing one) to reduce harmful environmental, workplace, human health, and energy use effects over the product's entire life cycle.
Austin's municipal wastewater treatment plant discharged ammonia and fecal coliform over permitted limits into the Cedar River.
The MPCA has developed a report to help improve the data when the volume of trash or recyclables has to be converted to weight.
MPCA is opening the rule that regulates about 17,000 animal feedlots.
One of the most basic forms of air pollution, haze reduces visibility in many cities and scenic areas within the United States. Haze-causing pollutants come from a variety of sources, both natural and man-made, including motor vehicles, electricity generation, industrial facilities, agriculture, and wildfires.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency places members with host sites throughout Minnesota each year. Members serve full-time for 11 months (Sept. 2026 through Aug. 20227) at environmental nonprofits, government agencies, and educational institutions.
Each year, Minnesotans throw away more than 850,000 tons of recyclables, worth around $153 million. Here's how we're reducing those numbers in Greater Minnesota.
Initial screening information for a contaminant of emerging concern, perfluorooctane sulfonate.
In Minnesota, wastewater treatment operators must be certified to ensure that facilities meet operational requirements.
Approximately 41,204 miles of streams in Minnesota (49.6% of the total) have been altered in some way by humans. Channelizing, ditching, and damming projects have changed the natural course of…
State and community leaders visited Faribault and Northfield to observe Minnesota climate resiliency efforts in action.