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Nearly nine in 10 Minnesota communities have reported experiencing the impact of at least one weather trend caused by climate change, and few cities have defined plans to address it.

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.

The MPCA uses the Environmental Quality Information System (EQuIS) to store water quality data from more than 17,000 Minnesota sampling locations.

With completion of the EAW review process, the MPCA will move forward with issuing West River Dairy’s feedlot permit on June 23.

Allows new and expanding wastewater treatment facilities to receive a discharge permit prior to completion of an applicable phosphorus-related TMDL. Through pre-TMDL phosphorus trading a, a new or expanding facility may increase its phosphorus discharge by purchasing a phosphorus reduction from another source.

The MPCA has started a study intended to understand and document the variation in naturally occurring sulfate levels across the state.

Important details to help make your e-Service submittal go as smoothly as possible.

To help address climate change and protect the health of Minnesotans, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency adopted Low Emission Vehicle Standards for particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, non-methane organic gases, and greenhouse gases, as well as the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Standard.

The Legislature has given the MPCA the authority to develop rules to protect state environmental resources.

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

Increasing organics collection and processing infrastructure is necessary to meet statewide recycling goals

A new facility that will process organic materials through anaerobic digesters in Shakopee.

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.

The St. Louis River Watershed covers 3,584 square miles at the head of the Great Lakes and represents the extreme headwaters of the St. Lawrence River.

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.

State and community leaders visited Faribault and Northfield to observe Minnesota climate resiliency efforts in action.

The chemical 1,4-dioxane, a likely carcinogen, was found in private wells near Bunker Lake Blvd. and Crosstown Blvd.

EPA awards Minnesota $200 million in Climate Pollution Reduction Grants

A program to provide sustainable, longer-term funding a select number watersheds to make measurable and visible progress.

Minnesota rules require many facilities that produce air emissions to conduct performance testing.