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The 2025 MPCA annual report on Brownfields celebrated numerous major achievements cleaning up and rehabilitating polluted properties.

Information will support the phase out of nonessential use of “forever chemicals” in Minnesota

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.

Two small creeks in the Nemadji River watershed are cleaner, and some fish have returned, after restoration work that the MPCA took part in.

Answers to frequently asked questions about compliance and MPCA's enforcement of environmental rules in Minnesota.

Conditionally exempt facilities do not need an air quality permit if they follow specific requirements.

The MPCA regulates both underground and aboveground commercial storage tanks above a certain size that hold petroleum or hazardous liquids.

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…

The MPCA has begun work to implement a groundbreaking new law to remedy Minnesotans’ disproportionate exposure to pollutants.

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…

Data shows that ice cover on Minnesota's lakes doesn't last as long as it used to. That means a shorter ice fishing season, yes, but it also has implications for the environment and Minnesota's fish and wildlife.

Complaints of discrimination will be investigated

Kathy Wagner, recipient of the 2025 Community Conservationist Award from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts (MASWCD), discusses her personal conservation work and local environmental advocacy.

This feature summarizes findings from four WRAPS reports in 2024: Root River, Mississippi River-St. Cloud, Pomme de Terre River, and Mississippi River-Lake Pepin Tributaries.

Guidance and recommendations for local officials dealing with public health issues related to blue-green algae.