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Guidance pertaining to the investigation and cleanup of hazardous substances, pollutants, and contaminants.
Going beyond compliance yields benefits like cost savings, improved health, greater efficiency, marketing advantages, enhanced employee morale, and stronger business resilience.
Four watershed scientists had an article published in LakeLine magazine. They report on 20 years of success getting lakes cleaned up.
MPCA’s work on the climate-smart food systems grant from the EPA is ongoing amid strong interest
For Katy Backes Kozhimannil, water is intrinsically tied to her life’s work. As a professor of public health at the University of Minnesota with a focus on rural communities, she has made it her life…
To help address climate change and protect the health of Minnesotans, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency adopted Low Emission Vehicle Standards for particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, non-methane organic gases, and greenhouse gases, as well as the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Standard.
The MPCA offered approximately $12.5 million in grant funding for projects that will prevent wasted food from being generated, prevent food from going to waste, or projects that rescue edible food from disposal and redirect it for human consumption in Minnesota.
Apply for the 2025-2026 Minnesota GreenCorps program and spend a year working on environmental issues and making a difference in communities around the state.
MPCA has developed a draft wastewater permit for the MagIron LLC facility near Grand Rapids, Minn. The facility will process former natural iron ore mining waste material into high-grade, low-impurity iron ore concentrate at the site and supply electric arc furnace steelmaking.
The chemical 1,4-dioxane, a likely carcinogen, was detected in a private residential well in the Eastbrook Terrace area in Andover.
The Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (WPLMN) is a partnership that collects data on water quality and flow in Minnesota.
Image Air quality is expected to reach the orange AQI category, which is unhealthy for sensitive groups, in southern, central, and western Minnesota…
The frequent wildfires in California and elsewhere, brought on by climate change, are affecting air quality for thousands of miles. That includes Minnesota.
The We Are Water MN exhibit in Duluth's Hartley Nature Center runs from February 29 through April 22.
Cleaner water is taking hold across Minnesota this Earth Day as farmers and communities scale up solutions that protect rivers, strengthen soil, and build resilience from headwaters to downstream lakes.
The MPCA is proposing to amend Minnesota Rules governing animal feedlots.
Clean heavy-duty off-road equipment grants fund the replacement of older, more polluting diesel equipment with newer, cleaner technology.
KODA Energy violated its air permit in Scott County from June 2023 to February 2024, according to a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) enforcement investigation. The investigation found KODA energy was burning waste-treated corn and should have submitted a major permit amendment before burning an industrial solid as a waste-to-energy incineration facility.
MPCA evaluates water quality by measuring and monitoring the health of fish, macroinvertebrates, and plants.
MPCA guidance for evaluating when closed landfills may exit the postclosure care phase.