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Clean Water Fund dollars come from the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment that Minnesotans approved in 2008.
Smith Foundry has ceased operations at its East Phillips facility after an investigation and settlement with the U.S. EPA that the MPCA supported.
Willernie-based Revitri won the MPCA’s Green and Sustainable Chemistry Prize for its innovative manufactured glass beads
Two small creeks in the Nemadji River watershed are cleaner, and some fish have returned, after restoration work that the MPCA took part in.
Minnesota’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions dropped by 14% between 2005 and 2022, according to a biennial report from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and Minnesota Department of Commerce
Francesca Crego, or Frannie, fondly recalls bike rides along the Mississippi River’s edge with her family. Growing up in the city, Frannie appreciated the feeling of mysticality brought by the river’…
The 2025 MPCA annual report on Brownfields celebrated numerous major achievements cleaning up and rehabilitating polluted properties.
The MPCA 401 certification fills a unique niche in protecting water quality by applying state water quality standards to projects.
A cumulative impacts analysis provides a comprehensive look at all burdens that affect a community or neighborhood.
$5.5 million grant from the U.S. EPA will help three Minnesota school districts partially electrify their bus fleets.
Question and answer session with Lisa Weidemann, a community affairs specialist with the MPCA, about her work with the agency.
Minnesota has revised state water quality standards to incorporate a tiered aquatic life use (TALU) framework for rivers and streams.
In most of Minnesota’s livestock-dense counties, feedlot oversight is a cooperative effort between the MPCA and county government.
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…
Answers to frequently asked questions about compliance and MPCA's enforcement of environmental rules in Minnesota.
The MPCA tested for PFAS in groundwater at 102 of the 111 sites in the Closed Landfill Program and found that 98% of the assessed facilities have PFAS contamination.
The MPCA regulates both underground and aboveground commercial storage tanks above a certain size that hold petroleum or hazardous liquids.
Conditionally exempt facilities do not need an air quality permit if they follow specific requirements.
Application fees must be submitted with your permit application. The submittal cover page form will help you add up the points assigned to each type of permit application or request. Multiply the…
States are responsible for developing a Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (SIP) that addresses regional haze in each Class I area located within the state and in each Class I area located…