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The MPCA investigates sites where hazardous substances have been or could be released to identify risks and appropriate remediation plans.
By taking steps beyond compliance to reduce your business's energy use and transportation impact and increasing the sustainability of your business's operations, your business can see tangible benefits.
MPCA rules govern the collection, transportation, storage, processing, and land application of animal manure and other livestock operation wastes.
Permitted waste facilities, waste projects, and waste haulers in Minnesota must submit regular reports to the MPCA.
Permitted waste facilities, waste utilization projects, and waste haulers in Minnesota must submit regular reports to the MPCA.
During the 2023 legislative session, legislators passed more than a dozen funding and policy proposals to address food waste, organics, recycling market development, and wood waste.
Healthy land and soil is essential for thriving Minnesota communities. It drives economic development and opportunity, improves our health, and contributes to clean water for drinking and recreation…
Minnesota's strategic, coordinated approach to protecting families and communities from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Governor Walz appointed Katrina Kessler as MPCA commissioner effective November 1. Kessler has been serving as an assistant commissioner.
Public input is critical to the work that we do. We invite that input by soliciting comments on agency decisions, holding public informational meetings, and more.
MPCA's leadership team.
Minnesota GreenCorps member Heidi Blum focused on waste reduction and recycling in Edina, Minnesota.
Reducing campus discards and raising awareness of sustainability through outreach and community engagement
Following the 2024 legislative session, the MPCA was charged with appointing a 15-member task force to advise the agency on policy and program opportunities that would increase the recovery of critical materials from end-of-life products.
RoundtableRx is a nonprofit operating the Minnesota Medication Repository Program, which reduces pharmaceutical waste by collecting excess medication for redistribution. The MPCA recently provided a $52,910 grant for education and outreach to help solve the pharmaceutical waste issue in Minnesota.
What is "What's in my neighborhood?"What's in my neighborhood provides a wide variety of environmental information about your community.Search for:properties that were previously contaminated and…
Every Minnesotan — regardless of income, race, ethnicity, color, or national origin — has the right to healthy air, sustainable lands, clean water, and a better climate.
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.
The MPCA developed the Wastewater Nitrogen Reduction and Implementation Strategy to decrease the wastewater sector’s nitrogen loads for the protection and restoration of bodies of water in and downstream of Minnesota.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) sample and test fish in bodies of water where known pollution issues may be a concern for human health through fish consumption.