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Under the federal Clean Water Act, states must designate beneficial uses for all waters and develop water quality standards to protect each use.
Chemicals in the air toxics emission inventory.
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?
The health of Minnesota's large rivers is a reflection of how well we are protecting overall water quality.
The MPCA provides financial and technical assistance to local government and other water resource managers to address nonpoint-source water pollution.
The MPCA has developed guidance on a number of topics to assist real estate developers, environmental engineers, remediation consultants, and others in addressing brownfields and contaminated sites.
Answers to questions frequently asked by municipalities about management of contaminated sediments in stormwater collection systems that they own and operate.
The MPCA identified a series of policy recommendations for the optimal management of decommissioned solar panels.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is committed to ensuring that every Minnesotan has healthy air, sustainable lands, clean water, and a better climate.
Minnesota law requires that people notify the MPCA (through the Minnesota Duty Officer) immediately when more than five gallons of petroleum or any amount of any substance under their control is released into the environment that could cause pollution of waters of the state.
Details on sampling and monitoring requirements of your industrial stormwater permit.
Minnesota industrial stormwater permittees in certain industries to monitor for PFAS in their stormwater runoff or snow.
As Minnesotans prepare for another summer of outdoor activities, MPCA meteorologists are forecasting a moderately active air quality season.
The MPCA is working on both short and long-term solutions to the growing waste problems in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality certified farms have added more than 2,000 new conservation practices, including over 110,000 acres of new cover crops that protect Minnesota’s waters.
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 kind of permit a facility needs depends on how much air pollution the facility could emit based on its equipment or processes.
The MPCA's chloride reduction program assists communities and organizations across Minnesota in identifying sources of chloride.
The Snake River begins its 50-mile course in Marshall County and drains an area of 611,800 acres. The Snake River Watershed lies within Marshall, Polk, and Pennington Counties in NW Minnesota.
State experts anticipate an active summer for air quality alerts with recurring ozone and wildfire smoke events