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

Significant restoration work by organizations in the area have made the south branch of the Buffalo River a water-quality success story.

The Minnesota Retiree Environmental Technical Assistance Program (RETAP) employs skilled, retired professionals to provide facility assessments to small businesses, institutions, and city and county governments in Minnesota.

Willernie-based Revitri won the MPCA’s Green and Sustainable Chemistry Prize for its innovative manufactured glass beads

Air sensors are instruments that measure air quality conditions in near real time.

Less than three years after Minnesota passed the country's first ban on TCE, a carcinogenic solvent, facilities around the state have removed it from their processes.

Important details to help make your e-Service submittal go as smoothly as possible.

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.

Dem-Con Landfill proposes to build a new municipal solid waste landfill at its environmental campus near Shakopee. It plans to convert 2.2 million cubic yards covering an approximately 81-acre fill area of its permitted construction and demolition landfill into a new municipal solid waste landfill. The creation of a new MSW landfill of this size requires the project to go through the environmental impact statement process.

Groundwater is not a static thing, but moves around in the layers of rock and soil beneath our feet. How does this affect the work to treat contaminated groundwater and protect drinking water?

To ensure that every person in Minnesota has healthy air to breathe, the MPCA studies, monitors, and regulates air pollutants, primarily in three categories: criteria pollutants, air toxics, and greenhouse gases.

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

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

The MPCA has withdrawn proposed rules relating to waste treated seeds.

To best serve the needs of all Minnesotans for healthy air, sustainable lands, clean water, and a better climate, the MPCA has committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce that…

Profile of Karl Scheuer, a volunteer with the MPCA's Volunteer Water Monitoring Program

Minnesota’s air currently meets all federal air quality standards. However, even levels of air pollution below the standards can affect people’s health, including levels currently found in parts of Minnesota.

Countless bacteria can be found in land, water, humans, and animals. Most bacteria are beneficial, serving as food for larger organisms and playing critical roles in natural processes such as organic…

Nearly nine in 10 Minnesota communities have reported experiencing the impact of at least one weather trend caused by climate change, and few cities have defined plans to address it.

Increased rainfall from climate change damages river water quality, which in turn damages fishing and recreation.