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New easy-to-access trainings help small businesses figure out if they are subject to MPCA regulations, and how to become more sustainable.

Image MPCA staff provide technical assistance to businesses seeking to improve their environmental performance and prevent pollution.Small business…

Excess phosphorus is harming Minnesota waters. Phosphorus comes from both regulated and non-regulated sources. A quarter of Minnesota lakes have high levels of phosphorus, which means that they do…

MPCA rules govern the collection, transportation, storage, processing, and land application of animal manure and other livestock operation wastes.

MPCA keeps its public data easily accessible for convenient use.

Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is low-carbon synthetic fuel made from non-petroleum sources that is blended with traditional jet fuel to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from air transportation.

The MPCA has started a study intended to understand and document the variation in naturally occurring sulfate levels across the state.

The Minnesota State Implementation Plan (SIP) is focused on the six criteria air pollutants regulated by national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS): ground-level ozone, fine particles, lead, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and sulfur dioxide.

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.

MPCA awards $2.4 million to eight organizations for projects focused on sustainable building and materials management strategies that reduce waste and increase deconstruction, salvage, and reuse in Minnesota.

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.

Investments in electric vehicle charging stations around Minnesota.

In rules, an incorporation by reference states that the contents of another document are part of the rule, even though the text of the referenced document does not appear in the rule itself.

A new planning effort in northwest Minnesota takes a basin-wide approach to reducing the state's phosphorous contributions to the Red River, and to Canada's Lake Winnipeg.

The Legislature has given the MPCA the authority to develop rules to protect state environmental resources.

Minnesota rules identify 16 standing beneficial uses for which waste generators or end users can simply follow the applicable rules without contacting the MPCA.

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

This page provides assistance for local units of government with development and implementation of their SSTS program.

The St. Louis River Watershed covers 3,584 square miles at the head of the Great Lakes and represents the extreme headwaters of the St. Lawrence River.

Rundown of all the PFAS legislative wins from the most recent legislative session.