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Minnesota GreenCorps member Heidi Blum focused on waste reduction and recycling in Edina, Minnesota.

Four watershed scientists had an article published in LakeLine magazine. They report on 20 years of success getting lakes cleaned up.

This training program focuses on the implementation of best management practices for lawn/turf care maintenance.

The MPCA regulates waste, recycling, and disposal activities in Minnesota. MPCA permits are required for the design, construction, and operation of solid waste management facilities where storage, collection, transportation, processing or reuse, conversion, or disposal of solid waste occurs.

Complaints of discrimination will be investigated

Dem-Con Landfill proposes to build a new municipal solid waste landfill at its environmental campus near Shakopee. It plans to convert 2.2 million cubic yards covering an approximately 81-acre fill area of its permitted construction and demolition landfill into a new municipal solid waste landfill. The creation of a new MSW landfill of this size requires the project to go through the environmental impact statement process.

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?

Initiatives passed during the 2023 legislative session invest hundreds of millions of dollars to advance Minnesota’s Climate Action Framework.

The MPCA has withdrawn proposed rules relating to waste treated seeds.

The We Are Water MN exhibit in Duluth's Hartley Nature Center runs from February 29 through April 22.

We Are Water MN travels to Leech Lake, where Raining White works to protect and restore manoomin, or wild rice.

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…

A permit extension notification allows transfer stations and source-separated organic material (SSOM) compost facilities to apply for an extension of their permit without a complete permit reissuance application.

The MPCA is working on both short and long-term solutions to the growing waste problems in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

The MPCA regulates most aspects of livestock management including the location, design, construction, operation, and management of feedlots and manure-handling facilities.

Abdirahman Hassan Abdirahman Hassan’s story begins in Mombasa, Kenya, a coastal city where the presence of the Indian Ocean was a childhood highlight. “I grew up…

MPCA permits are required for extensions, additions, or other modifications to sanitary sewer collection systems that result in new or increased discharges of pollutants.

Sandy and Jay Boss Febbo shared their story as part of We Are Water MN, a traveling exhibit and community engagement program that explores Minnesotans’ relationships with water.

Eight cities will receive grants to create plans that will protect homes and businesses from flooding and other climate impacts

Lights, camera, antics! Students at Century College script and produce a fun video as part of their coursework.