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Significant restoration work by organizations in the area have made the south branch of the Buffalo River a water-quality success story.
To ensure that every person in Minnesota has healthy air to breathe, the MPCA studies, monitors, and regulates air pollutants, primarily in three categories: criteria pollutants, air toxics, and greenhouse gases.
The MPCA provides financial and technical assistance to local government and other water resource managers to address nonpoint-source water pollution.
Initiatives passed during the 2023 legislative session invest hundreds of millions of dollars to advance Minnesota’s Climate Action Framework.
Air quality dispersion modeling uses a computer model to estimate air pollution concentrations from regulated facilities and other sources of pollution.
Permit applications must include detailed emissions calculations to help determine which permit type or permit amendment is needed.
Registration form for service providers operating in Minnesota as a part of the state’s Packaging Waste and Cost Reduction Act.
Some Minnesota companies are helping expand the use of recycled materials in the state, thanks to market development grants from the MPCA.
Communities that are resilient to climate change are able to effectively to prepare for and recover from its effects, and continue to thrive.
The MPCA must complete assessments to gather critical information too inform the development of the EPR program statewide.
To best serve the needs of all Minnesotans for healthy air, sustainable lands, clean water, and a better climate, the MPCA has committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce that…
The MPCA uses the Environmental Quality Information System (EQuIS) to store water quality data from more than 17,000 Minnesota sampling locations.
Minnesota has enacted laws to end avoidable uses of PFAS in Minnesota by 2032.
MPCA recognized 253 municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants for outstanding operations in 2023.
Increased rainfall from climate change damages river water quality, which in turn damages fishing and recreation.
As part of the MN Cup competition, MPCA offers a Sustainable Chemistry Prize of $10,000 to technologies and products that were designed using one or more green chemistry principles or that demonstrate safer or more sustainable chemistry than those already on the market.
A project to address high levels of suspended sediment in the Minnesota River and the South Metro portion of the Mississippi River.
Volkswagen settlement dollars are funding the replacement of older, dirtier diesel engines with newer, cleaner equipment.
Minnesota industrial stormwater permittees in certain industries to monitor for PFAS in their stormwater runoff or snow.
The MPCA certifies Minnesota municipal, government, or industrial laboratories that are used to comply with National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)/State Disposal System (SDS) permits or for water quality work for agency programs.