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We Are Water MN travels to Leech Lake, where Raining White works to protect and restore manoomin, or wild rice.
Designing stormwater systems to handle the challenges of climate change differs in every community across the state. Here’s how one community is meeting that challenge
When food spoils or is thrown away before we eat it, the resources that went into creating the food are wasted.
Minnesota is the first state to require producers fund boat wrap collection and recycling.
Industrial Stormwater Steps to Compliance Step 4: Create SWPPP, choose BMPs
Our climate has already changed and will continue to change. Minnesotans are feeling impacts of climate change, from higher temperatures, more extreme storms with intense flooding, and changes in our…
A stormwater system upgrade in Duluth was expanded with the help of an MPCA employee who tapped into available funding. It protects Lake Superior and can serve as an example for other cities and counties.
New MPCA report monitors PFAS sources and movement, provides direction for preventing and managing PFAS pollution.
The air emissions breakdown/shutdown notification form is required by rule to prevent endangerment of human health or the environment.
Minnesota has a new law that prohibits nonessential use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
Composting your Halloween jack-o'-lantern is a good way to keep it out of the landfill. So is giving it to a local farmer.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability, age, or sex in administration of its programs or activities, and, MPCA does not intimidate or retaliate against any individual or group because they have exercised their rights to participate in actions protected, or oppose actions prohibited, by 40 C.F.R. Parts 5 and 7, or for the purpose of interfering with such rights.
Anglers can choose lead-free materials when shopping for fishing tackle. Popular options include tungsten, steel, tin, bismuth/tin, and glass.
Smart Salting is a suite of techniques that minimize the environmental and economic impacts of chloride while still meeting public needs.
MPCA Environmental Assistance grant program puts spotlight on mend-it clinics and other reuse and waste reduction efforts.
To obtain coverage under this permit, the owner(s) must document compliance with the criteria for coverage under this general permit, prior to disposal of the uncontaminated concrete.
Thermal paper is thin with a slick feel or sheen finish and discolors easily when scratched.
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
Environmental information and permits that affect grain elevators, feed mills and fertilizer mixing plants.
Where possible, permit holders must use MPCA's e-Services to apply for reissuance and administrative amendments.