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Our strategic plan has six broad goals that, when taken together, map our work for five years. MPCA’s strategic plan guides the agency’s work from Jan. 1, 2024, to Dec. 31, 2028. These goals are…
The MPCA has actively been developing methods and building capacity to improve our ability to monitor and assess wetlands to protect and restore them.
MPCA recognized 253 municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants for outstanding operations in 2023.
The Clean Water Council was created to advise the Legislature and the governor on the administration and implementation of the 2006 Clean Water Legacy Act
Green and safer product chemistry is formulating or designing a new product (or reformulating an existing one) to reduce harmful environmental, workplace, human health, and energy use effects over the product's entire life cycle.
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?
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.
Find out whether your feedlot needs to register, to get an environmental review, or apply for a permit.
Details on sampling and monitoring requirements of your industrial stormwater permit.
Minnesota law requires that people notify the MPCA (through the Minnesota Duty Officer) immediately when more than five gallons of petroleum or any amount of any substance under their control is released into the environment that could cause pollution of waters of the state.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is committed to ensuring that every Minnesotan has healthy air, sustainable lands, clean water, and a better climate.
Industrial Stormwater Steps to Compliance - Step 5: Gather application materials before applying, use the e-Service to apply or modify coverage
Minnesota rules identify 16 standing beneficial uses for which waste generators or end users can simply follow the applicable rules without contacting the MPCA.
Enbridge Energy is continuing restoration work around its new Line 3 crude oil pipeline across Minnesota. The new line replaces an aging Line 3 and began operating in October 2021, after Enbridge completed the project’s construction phase.
The kind of permit a facility needs depends on how much air pollution the facility could emit based on its equipment or processes.
A new facility that will process organic materials through anaerobic digesters in Shakopee.
Minnesota industrial stormwater permittees in certain industries to monitor for PFAS in their stormwater runoff or snow.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a class of more than 100 chemicals that occur naturally in coal, crude oil, and gasoline, and are also present in products made from fossil fuels, such as…
ECSWC is applying for a 10-year permit to add MSW capacity to its currently permitted landfill near Mora while conducting environmental review for the unpermitted areas of its landfill expansion.
The Clean Water Act established the framework for creating water quality standards and continues to help us protect Minnesota's prized lakes and rivers.