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A program to provide sustainable, longer-term funding a select number watersheds to make measurable and visible progress.
Some permittees are receiving phishing attacks claiming to be from the EPA. How to spot a phishing attack and what to do about it.
The MPCA provides educational information about the status of Minnesota’s air, water, land, and climate and can point you toward beneficial actions you can take as students, teachers, and life-long learners interested in Minnesota’s sustainable future.
The MPCA library provides access to the agency's curated collection of environmental information for agency employees, external professionals, and the public.
Air sensors are instruments that measure air quality conditions in near real time.
The Red River of the North - Sand Hill River Watershed covers 708,469 acres and is part of the Red River Basin in northwestern Minnesota and southeastern North Dakota.
The MPCA has begun work to implement a groundbreaking new law to remedy Minnesotans’ disproportionate exposure to pollutants.
Recent air permits issued by the MPCA can be found in What's in My Neighborhood. The tool does not currently include all previously issued air emissions permits. All air emissions permits issued by…
U.S. Steel Corp. operates a taconite mine and processing plant known as Keetac north of Keewatin, where it produces taconite pellets for use at iron and steel mills.
From January through March 2025, MPCA air monitoring data showed elevated lead levels that exceeded national ambient air quality standards near the facility. An MPCA inspection of Gopher Resource in spring 2025 confirmed that the source of the elevated lead levels was addressed.
Canby Creek now flows into Del Clark Lake and protects Canby from flooding, while providing outdoor recreation and excellent water quality.
The Rainy River - Rainy Lake Watershed covers 583,791 acres. Open water makes up 75,815 of those acres and wetlands occupy another 84,851 acres. The watershed is 64% in St. Louis County and 36% in Koochiching County. The northern boundary is part of the international border waters with Ontario, Canada.
For Katy Backes Kozhimannil, water is intrinsically tied to her life’s work. As a professor of public health at the University of Minnesota with a focus on rural communities, she has made it her life…
Through this Minnesota climate smart food systems (CSFS) grant, the MPCA has approximately $4 million available for projects related to Tribal food sovereignty that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These grants will be awarded to Native-led organizations that work with Native populations not on reservation lands.
Dakota County is now hosting We Are Water MN, a traveling exhibit and community engagement program that explores Minnesotans’ relationships with water.
Karst near Oxbow Park and Zollman Zoo, host of the We Are Water MN traveling exhibit. Phil George, who lives in rural Byron, Minnesota, has always felt a deep…
Through this Minnesota climate smart food systems (CSFS) grant, the MPCA offered approximately $10 million in grant funding for projects that will expand Minnesota’s infrastructure capacity for composting source-separated organic materials (SSOM) with a focus on wasted food and food scraps.
Water quality trading is a market-based approach to the protection and restoration of surface waters, another tool to be used in conjunction with existing voluntary, regulatory, and financial assistance programs.
The Burnsville Sanitary Landfill (BSL) will expand to accommodate the growing municipal waste needs of the Twin Cities metro area. The expansion is part of the landfill’s long-term plan to extend the useful life of the landfill to 2062.
The Rainy River - Headwaters Watershed covers nearly 1.9 million acres, starting in northern Cook and Lake Counties and flowing west/northwesterly into St. Louis County and the Canadian border waters.