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July is Lakes Appreciation Month! If you love Minnesota lakes and want to help protect them, sign up to be a volunteer water monitor for the MPCA.
People who service and dispose of vehicle air conditioners or appliances that contain refrigerants must be certified.
Kathy Wagner, recipient of the 2025 Community Conservationist Award from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts (MASWCD), discusses her personal conservation work and local environmental advocacy.
The MPCA's regulatory, cleanup, and monitoring programs create and maintain spatial data that serve our environmental protection work and can be shared with partners and researchers.
The Air We Breathe report looks at public health and air quality data to gauge how air pollution is affecting our health in Minnesota.
We Are Water MN travels to Chisago County, where Dawn White has served as an educator and policy team member focused on preserving waters.
Initial screening information for a contaminant of emerging concern, fluoxetine.
Regular people are pretty good at judging water quality, and new research from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) proves it.In an academic paper published in February, MPCA scientists…
This feature summarizes findings from four WRAPS reports in 2024: Root River, Mississippi River-St. Cloud, Pomme de Terre River, and Mississippi River-Lake Pepin Tributaries.
MPCA awards first of two rounds of Tribal technical assistance grants intended to advance environmental work on reservations and in Tribal communities
Every two years, MPCA creates a list of impaired waters in the state that do not meet water quality standards.
MPCA has released the first in a series of reports on industrial uses of PFAS in Minnesota and identifying alternatives.
Minnesota state agencies and local governments are working together to protect drinking water supplies.
Two small creeks in the Nemadji River watershed are cleaner, and some fish have returned, after restoration work that the MPCA took part in.
Cumulative impacts are the combined effects of current and past pollution and other stressors and how they impact the health, well-being, and quality of life of residents in those communities. The cumulative effects process is how we in Minnesota account for and begin to correct environmental injustices.
The MPCA has a variety of educational displays, programs, and materials about chloride pollution. We encourage our partners to utilize these resources to engage with their community.
Standard operating procedures (SOPs) reflect how agency staff and contracted partners complete agency-funded field activities.
For more than 50 years, volunteers have gathered critically important water clarity data on Minnesota lakes and streams.
The Cloquet River Watershed covers approximately 507,858 acres (794 square miles) and is located within portions of Lake and St. Louis Counties in northeastern Minnesota.
MPCA’s community air monitoring pilot grant program will provide $4.85 million to build more networks of community air sensors in the Twin Cities metro area.