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Fire departments are often the first responders to incidents that include spills of hazardous substance.
Northern Iron operates an iron foundry in an environmental justice area in Saint Paul's Payne-Phalen neighborhood.
Financing is available for public entities in Minnesota to expand or improve stormwater infrastructure.
Details on Minnesota state contracts with businesses that provide environmental emergency response services.
East Side Jersey Dairy Inc., doing business as Prairie Farms Dairy Inc., had several liquid sugar spills they failed to report to the Minnesota Duty Officer in 2022 and 2023. The spills created a potential for harm to the environment and aquatic life had they reached wetlands near the company’s facility in Woodbury, Minnesota.
The MPCA closed 118 enforcement cases for water quality, air quality, waste, stormwater, and wastewater violations in the second half of 2023.
The MPCA regulates both underground and aboveground commercial storage tanks above a certain size that hold petroleum or hazardous liquids.
Tools and materials for partners and stakeholders interested in minimizing the impact of chloride on Minnesota lakes, rivers, and groundwater.
Profile of Julia Dady, a volunteer water monitor for Battle Creek in Saint Paul.
Tailings basin piping leaked wastewater and about 11,500 cubic feet of tailings materials over nearly half an acre, including a nearby wetland in May 2023 due to inadequate operation and maintenance of the tailings basin pipeline at the company’s facility in Virginia, Minn.
The MPCA administers programs that are governed by 45 chapters of rules. The MPCA periodically conducts a “housekeeping” rulemaking to make minor corrections and clarifications to the rules or to repeal rules that have become obsolete.
In 2010, the MPCA began receiving public inquiries about projects to mine silica sand for use in hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” a drilling method used for natural gas and oil wells.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is expanding the ways we learn and understand the effects of pollution on communities and the environment by incorporating lived experiences into our air…
Guidance development process and timelineThe guidance document uses an evidence-based approach that builds upon the framework and strategies presented in previous MPCA publications.The MPCA hosted a…
Hot, sunny weather brings the possibility of air quality alerts due to ozone. But what exactly is ozone?
Volunteer-collected data are regularly used in decision-making and conservation efforts. Find a program that excites you and join in.
State will begin engagement next month on an updated framework set to be released in 2025
The Meadows Mobile Home Park discharged untreated sewage to the ground in two separate violations in 2025.
The Soiled Undies exhibit at the Eco Experience at the Minnesota State Fair might look off-putting at first, but it's a good demonstration of the importance of soil health and how healthy soil can help the environment.
The MPCA strives to ensure all people in Minnesota have clean air, regardless of where they live or work.