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Removing Middle Lake from the impaired waters list required wrangling with a bottom feeder, the invasive carp.

$5.5 million grant from the U.S. EPA will help three Minnesota school districts partially electrify their bus fleets.

Through a certificate of need process, MPCA is offering existing landfills the opportunity to expand their existing capacity.

Tools to help small businesses determine if they need an air emissions permit and/or track compliance with their current air emissions permit.

Minnesota has revised state water quality standards to incorporate a tiered aquatic life use (TALU) framework for rivers and streams.

The MPCA closed 118 enforcement cases for water quality, air quality, waste, stormwater, and wastewater violations in the second half of 2023.

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.

Robyn Dwight is the 2024 winner of the Community Conservationist Award given by the Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts and MPCA. She helped expand Keep It Clean, which keeps garbage off lake ice.

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

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

Batteries aren’t trash, they’re treasure: Recycling old batteries gives their materials a new life. Visit CollectED's new, carnival-style interactive exhibit at MPCA's Eco Experience at the Minnesota State Fair to learn more about batteries.

Partnerships and diversified funding drive the work to restore water quality in impaired streams in the Red Lake River Watershed through science-based interventions.

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

The MPCA is leading multiple initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector.

Does it seems like the number of alerts due to wildfires has increased in the past few years? We’ve had 46 air-quality alerts since 2015—34 of those due to wildfire smoke.

The MPCA has announced that 11 grant recipients will receive a total of $5.3 million for projects that build lasting capacity to support recycling markets in Minnesota.

Throughout her life, Jen Widmer has felt a deep connection to wetlands. As a child, she played broomball on the ice of a wetland near her home. She once attempted swimming in the wetland but was…

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.

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

Septic system owners are responsible for system maintenance. Properly maintaining a septic system will extend its life.