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State will begin engagement next month on an updated framework set to be released in 2025
Young Life Castaway Club violated several wastewater regulations, mainly modifying wastewater treatment systems without approval, between 2019 and 2022 at its youth and family camp on Pelican Lake, just south of Detroit Lakes. These violations carry serious risks of harm to the environment.
MPCA reports to the state Legislature.
MPCA guidance for evaluating when closed landfills may exit the postclosure care phase.
States are responsible for developing a Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (SIP) that addresses regional haze in each Class I area located within the state and in each Class I area located…
Air sensors are instruments that measure air quality conditions in near real time.
In most of Minnesota’s livestock-dense counties, feedlot oversight is a cooperative effort between the MPCA and county government.
Metal recycler in Brainerd constructed and operated a metal shredder without obtaining an air permit and under-reported VOC emissions in 2022.
The MPCA has developed a report to help improve the data when the volume of trash or recyclables has to be converted to weight.
St. Paul Brass manufactures brass, bronze, and aluminum castings in the Frogtown neighborhood of Saint Paul, an environmental justice area.
Forms and guidance for local partners submitting surface water data, QA/QC information and progress reports to MPCA.
The MPCA's Petroleum Remediation Program addresses risks to people and the environment from contamination caused by leaking petroleum storage tanks.
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.
Volunteer-collected data are regularly used in decision-making and conservation efforts. Find a program that excites you and join in.
Minnesota rules require many facilities that produce air emissions to conduct performance testing.
Loans are available to defray the capital costs of installing waste or pollution prevention machinery or equipment.
MPCA's environmental review process for feedlots operates according to the rules of the Environmental Quality Board.
In early 2024, Minnesota became the first U.S. state to establish a product stewardship program for boat wrap, which must provide free collection, transportation, reuse, recycling, and disposal.
The TMDL is based on 62 impairments for turbidity and total suspended solids along the Minnesota River and its tributaries and in the Greater Blue Earth River basin.
Underground storage tank (UST) facilities must designate owners, operators, or employees as Class A, Class B, and Class C operators.