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How to prepare recycling for the curb
Reducing campus discards and raising awareness of sustainability through outreach and community engagement
Answers to frequently asked questions about compliance and MPCA's enforcement of environmental rules in Minnesota.
This long-term data gathering initiative helps track trends in water bodies around the state. The MPCA is grateful for every volunteer who has dedicated time to monitoring their favorite lake or stream.
Instructions for preparing for and completing the online exam for underground storage tank operator certification.
Spring is the time for awakening gardens from their slumber and cleaning up the yard. It’s also a good time to start thinking about a backyard compost pile. Here’s how to build one that’ll enhance soil health and that your neighbors won’t mind.
Robyn Dwight is the 2024 winner of the Community Conservationist Award given by the Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts and MPCA. She helped expand Keep It Clean, which keeps garbage off lake ice.
Learn what a brownfield is, how it can negatively affect communities, and resources for cleaning one up.
We Are Water MN travels to Leech Lake, where Raining White works to protect and restore manoomin, or wild rice.
MPCA had approximately $1 million for projects that increase the efficiency or effectiveness of waste reduction, reuse, recycling, or composting programs in Greater Minnesota.
Intense storms of late spring can wash soil and other pollutants into rivers. Producers can use several techniques to protect their soil and water quality.
Study funded by the $850 million settlement that Minnesota reached with 3M in 2018 focused on the area served by the Valley Branch Watershed District’s Project 1007 rainwater conveyance system in the East Metro.
Governor Walz appointed Katrina Kessler as MPCA commissioner effective November 1. Kessler has been serving as an assistant commissioner.
The MPCA issued a new air quality permit for this manufacturing facility in White Bear Township.
Proposed changes to permits that regulate the state’s largest animal feedlots target nitrate pollution statewide.
Industrial Stormwater Steps to Compliance - Step 2: Consider certifying for No Exposure
One indicator of impairment that puts a stream on the Impaired Waters List is its macroinvertebrate population. Here's how that works.
General Waste and Recycling, LLC plans to convert approximately 19 acres of permitted industrial solid waste space in Itasca County so that it can accept nearly 100,000 cubic yards of municipal solid waste (MSW) per year.
The MPCA works with partners throughout Minnesota each year to gauge the health of waters and identify stressors that harm fish and other aquatic life.
Any facility that emits air pollutants above certain levels is required to have an air quality permit.