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A water quality variance is a temporary change in a state's water quality standard for a specific pollutant and its relevant criteria, allowing deviation from meeting a water quality-based effluent limit for a particular discharger.
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are a group of chemicals that can vaporize into air. VOCs are in thousands of daily use products, including paint, varnish, wax, and various cleaning, degreasing,…
MPCA had approximately $250,000 in grant funding available to help Minnesota governments, businesses, institutions, and organizations address two specific needs: waste reduction/reuse and toxic products prevention.
The MPCA sought applications from contractors to partner with auto repair shops, dealerships, tech colleges or other entities to identify and fix high-emitting vehicles.
Warming temperatures and increased rains caused by climate change continue to have real impacts on farms across Minnesota. Our agriculture industry will also play an important role in reducing the amount climate change causing pollution we produce as a state.
During the 2023 legislative session, legislators passed more than a dozen funding and policy proposals to address food waste, organics, recycling market development, and wood waste.
Disposing of wastes from a natural disaster or large fire
With completion of the EAW review process, the MPCA will move forward with issuing West River Dairy’s feedlot permit on June 23.
The MPCA identified a series of policy recommendations for the optimal management of decommissioned solar panels.
A watershed is the area of land where all of the water that drains off of it goes into the same place — a river, stream or lake.
MPCA permits are required for construction, modification, and operation of facilities where solid waste is treated, stored, processed, transferred, or disposed.
Tools and materials for partners and stakeholders interested in minimizing the impact of chloride on Minnesota lakes, rivers, and groundwater.
Complaints of discrimination will be investigated
Question and answer session with Addison Otto, a rule coordinator with the MPCA, about her work with the agency and how her hobby farm informs her work.
Central Bi-Products emitted higher levels of hydrogen sulfide than is allowed, causing odor complaints in the community of Long Prairie and resulting in a $3 million fine. Central Bi-Products has agreed to spend a minimum of $4.4 million on a supplemental environmental project that will improve its wastewater treatment.
The MPCA regulates most aspects of livestock management including the location, design, construction, operation, and management of feedlots and manure-handling facilities.
Nitrogen management plans help operators of wastewater treatment facilities understand the inputs of nitrogen to their facilities and evaluate options that can reduce the amount of nitrogen discharged.
Minnesota industrial stormwater permittees in certain industries to monitor for PFAS in their stormwater runoff or snow.
The TMDL is based on 62 impairments for turbidity and total suspended solids along the Minnesota River and its tributaries and in the Greater Blue Earth River basin.
A successful cleanup of contaminated land along the Cedar River in Austin caps a long history of industrial pollution.