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MPCA’s work on the climate-smart food systems grant from the EPA is ongoing amid strong interest

Recycling market development works to expand end markets and boost the demand for recycled materials.

The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe has hosted five MN GreenCorps members to help install solar panels and electric vehicle charges, promote food sovereignty, and more.

Minnesota’s policy is to eliminate or reduce the use, generation, and release of toxic pollutants and hazardous wastes at their source.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's Emergency Response Program (ERP) oversees the cleanup of all types of spills and environmental emergencies.

A cumulative impacts analysis provides a comprehensive look at all burdens that affect a community or neighborhood.

With completion of the EAW review process, the MPCA will move forward with issuing West River Dairy’s feedlot permit on June 23.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is planning to add sites in New Hope, Saint Paul, and Rochester to the state's Permanent List of Priorities (PLP). Members of the public are invited to provide comments.

Volunteers can search for a lake or stream site that works for them and sign up to monitor it.

Allows new and expanding wastewater treatment facilities to receive a discharge permit prior to completion of an applicable phosphorus-related TMDL. Through pre-TMDL phosphorus trading a, a new or expanding facility may increase its phosphorus discharge by purchasing a phosphorus reduction from another source.

Composting organic waste and compostable products creates a valuable product that improves soil fertility, conserves water, and reduces erosion.

Some Minnesota companies are helping expand the use of recycled materials in the state, thanks to market development grants from the MPCA.

The St. Louis River Mercury TMDL will determine mercury reductions needed for lakes and rivers in the St. Louis River watershed.

We have some suggestions for avoiding disposable items, excessive packaging, and single-use plastics when shopping for your everyday needs.

Profile of John Weiss, a volunteer with the MPCA's Volunteer Water Monitoring Program

Industrial Stormwater Steps to Compliance Step 4: Create SWPPP, choose BMPs

Minnesota GreenCorps member Heidi Blum focused on waste reduction and recycling in Edina, Minnesota.

MPCA offers Climate Resilience Planning grants, with a listing of previous grant winners

A project to address excess sediment and turbidity in the Mississippi River, from Fort Snelling at St. Paul to upper Lake Pepin at Red Wing, based on a site-specific standard developed by the MPCA and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

Improving water quality in Lake George has required treating phosphorus in the water and filtering pollutants out of urban stormwater.