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Northern Iron LLC removed, modified, or replaced pollution control equipment throughout its iron foundry facility over the past 15 years without seeking required major amendments to its air quality permits before making the changes
Image Air quality is expected to reach the orange AQI category for much of Minnesota, which is unhealthy for sensitive groupsThe Minnesota Pollution…
To ensure that every person in Minnesota has healthy air to breathe, the MPCA studies, monitors, and regulates air pollutants, primarily in three categories: criteria pollutants, air toxics, and greenhouse gases.
Abbott Northwestern Hospital started construction at its Minneapolis campus in early 2022 without first having appropriate permits in place.
The MPCA monitors and assesses lakes around the state to determine if they meet water quality standards.
The MPCA is working with the city of Minneapolis to identify sources of air pollution in North Minneapolis and find strategies to reduce emissions.
Businesses face challenges from climate change's impacts, but they can also take steps to reduce their contributions to climate change.
An air emission permit is a legal document that describes how a facility must operate to meet state and federal air regulations, and to minimize the impact of air emissions on people and the…
Ever Cat Fuels, LLC, will pay a $300,000 civil penalty to the MPCA for air quality violations at its biodiesel production facility in Isanti.
To protect human health and the environment, we need to limit the amount of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in our waters to safe levels. Safe levels means water can be used for drinking,…
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.
Sugar beet processing facility emitted higher levels of hydrogen sulfide and particulates than its permit allows between 2020 and 2022. The Polk-Norman-Mahnomen Community Health Board will receive 40% of the $350,000 penalty according to a new Minnesota statute enacted in 2023.
Any facility that emits air pollutants above certain levels is required to have an air quality permit.
A 2008 law requires the MPCA to analyze and consider “cumulative levels and effects of past and current pollution” for air permits in a specific part of south Minneapolis.
Added production equipment that increased its potential to emit pollutants on two occasions in 2022 without obtaining appropriate air permits prior to installing the equipment. The second addition resulted in actual methanol emissions above emission limits in Sept. 2022.
Unauthorized equipment installations, modifications lead to air quality violations for Northland Aluminum Products
All facilities with air permits must submit an annual emissions inventory report to the MPCA that tracks actual emissions of major pollutants at that facility.
Planned rulemaking for changes to reporting requirements for hazardous air pollutants (HAPs).
POET Biorefining-Glenville LLC violated several air permit conditions between 2018 and 2023 at its ethanol production facility in Albert Lea, Minn. The facility emitting more particulate matter and volatile organic compounds than allowed by permit over the course of five years.
Conagra Foods LLC released hydrogen sulfide (H2S) at higher than permitted levels on more than 2,500 occasions between 2020 and 2022 at its fruit and vegetable processing facility in Waseca, Minn.