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Improving water quality in Lake George has required treating phosphorus in the water and filtering pollutants out of urban stormwater.

Septic tanks must be registered in Minnesota to ensure they are watertight and have adequate structural integrity.

MPCA collects information about the sale and use of greenhouse gases with high global warming potential.

Increased rainfall from climate change damages river water quality, which in turn damages fishing and recreation.

New reports from the MPCA highlight restoration investments and improved water quality while calling for continued work to address persistent challenges in southeastern Minnesota.

Minnesota rivers are shrinking in the drought; some have their lowest flows in decades. What will be the long term effects?

What is a stormwater catch basin, and should I be worried about it?

Find out what’s being done in Minnesota’s watersheds to protect and improve water quality.

Study funded by the $850 million settlement that Minnesota reached with 3M in 2018  focused on the area served by the Valley Branch Watershed District’s Project 1007 rainwater conveyance system in the East Metro.

The MPCA monitors water quality in rivers and streams is several different ways around the state.

Application fees must be submitted with your permit application. The submittal cover page form will help you add up the points assigned to each type of permit application or request. Multiply the…

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?

BALMM emphasizes land use practices to improve or protect water quality, particularly in the areas of watershed management, aquifer protection and floodplain management.

MPCA staff studied the river during this summer's extreme drought conditions to see if tighter limits on phosphorus are protecting aquatic life.

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

The Minnesota Nutrient Reduction Strategy (NRS) compiles the latest science, research, and data and recommends the most effective strategies to reduce nutrients in our waters from both point and nonpoint sources.

Keep It Clean focuses on the growing problem of garbage and human waste left on the ice by anglers and other visitors during ice fishing season.

The health of Minnesota's large rivers is a reflection of how well we are protecting overall water quality.

The Lake Allie wastewater treatment facility will pay more than $13,000 in fines and follow a corrective action plan for violating its wastewater permit in Buffalo Lake, Minn.

The MPCA fined West Fraser Forest Products $24,750 for exceeding the total amount of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) allowed by the air permit for the company’s Solway facility from January 2024 to January 2025.