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Northshore Mining operates the Peter Mitchell Mine, a taconite ore mining operation, in Babbitt. It sends the ore that it mines there via rail to a processing plant in Silver Bay, which is a separate facility with its own individual air permit.
Environmental information and resources for the automotive industry
The MPCA and its many partners collect a wide variety of data on environmental conditions and pollution sources.
State will begin engagement next month on an updated framework set to be released in 2025
Environmental information and permits that affect businesses using stationary engines or generators.
Businesses like grocery, liquor, and convenience stores depend on refrigeration systems. Some of these systems, however, can prove expensive to operate and harmful to the environment.
Funding for projects to reduce air pollution in Minnesota today and invest in cleaner transportation for tomorrow.
Our climate has already changed and will continue to change. Minnesotans are feeling impacts of climate change, from higher temperatures, more extreme storms with intense flooding, and changes in our…
Healthy recycling markets divert materials from the waste stream, convert the materials into commodities, and supply them to manufacturers for the production of new products. The businesses that…
Environmental information and permits that affect businesses using boilers.
The MPCA is planning new rules governing air quality. The main purpose is to adopt new rules to implement and govern regulation of facilities that emit air toxics.
With the end of the 2025 model year in the automobile industry, so ends Minnesota's Clean Cars rule. The Clean Cars rule, adopted in 2020, had a goal of electric vehicles exceeding 6% of all…
MPCA's leadership team.
Learn what steps you can take to reduce the pollution from small neighborhood sources.
Grants to replace older diesel vehicles and equipment with all-electric models with zero emissions, improving air quality and public health.
One of the most basic forms of air pollution, haze reduces visibility in many cities and scenic areas within the United States. Haze-causing pollutants come from a variety of sources, both natural and man-made, including motor vehicles, electricity generation, industrial facilities, agriculture, and wildfires.
MPCA seeks public comment on a proposed air permit for the U.S. Steel Keetac mining facility in Keewatin, Minn.
Environmental information and permits that affect businesses that paint, coat, or strip surfaces.
The MPCA solicited applications for approximately $630,000 in grants to replace old diesel school buses with new models fueled by diesel, propane, or natural gas.
Details on major and minor modifications of a solid waste management facility permit.