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The MPCA is collaborating with many federal, Tribal, state, and local partners to clean up contaminated sites in the Duluth harbor and St. Louis River.

Find sustainable products for your business with these helpful certification and labeling systems.

Minnesota state agencies and local governments are working together to protect drinking water supplies.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has issued an air quality alert for central and southern Minnesota. The alert runs until 11 p.m. on Thursday, June 12. Air quality is expected to reach the orange AQI category in central and southern Minnesota, which is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

MPCA sought proposals from qualified environmental contractors for a contract to support the agency's Watershed Division on statewide, basin-wide, water body, and watershed scale projects.

MPCA evaluates water quality by measuring and monitoring the health of fish, macroinvertebrates, and plants.

MPCA awards first of two rounds of Tribal technical assistance grants intended to advance environmental work on reservations and in Tribal communities

A waste tire transporter removes waste tires from a waste tire generator, tire dump, or waste tire facility and delivers the waste tires for aggregation, storage, or processing.

The MPCA has important roles in protecting and restoring waters in degraded conditions.

Groundwater and drinking water in the east Twin Cities metro area is contaminated with PFAS due to 3M's disposal practices at four sites in the area.

Based on volume, construction and demolition debris presents a big opportunity for reducing waste and its environmental effects.

A training and certification program for evaluating aquatic life in Minnesota’s rivers and streams.

Are pets affected by poor air quality? Will wearing a mask help when I’m outside? What is particulate pollution? We’ve got the answers.

Minnesota has revised state water quality standards to incorporate a tiered aquatic life use (TALU) framework for rivers and streams.

Wild rice is an important part of the biological community in many Minnesota lakes, streams, and wetlands, and a cultural resource to many, particularly members of the Dakota and Ojibwe Tribal Nations in Minnesota.

The MPCA has adopted amended rules relating to when maintenance of a closed landfill should end.

Minnesota state agencies are working together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.

Minnesota GreenCorps members serving with the City of Minneapolis developed a mini-course for residents about responsible use of deicing salt.

For more than 50 years, volunteers have gathered critically important water clarity data on Minnesota lakes and streams.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has extended an air quality alert for southeast and northern Minnesota. The alert is now in effect until 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 12, for southeast Minnesota and until 11 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 13 for northern Minnesota. Fine particle levels are expected to reach the orange air quality index (AQI) category, a level considered unhealthy for sensitive groups.