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The Minnesota River - Yellow Medicine River Watershed (1.3 million acres) has traditionally been managed as two separate watersheds, the Hawk Creek Watershed to the north of the Minnesota River and the Yellow Medicine River Watershed to the south.
Studies of Minnesota’s waters show that contaminants of emerging concern are widespread in the state’s lakes and rivers.
Minnesota’s policy is to eliminate or reduce the use, generation, and release of toxic pollutants and hazardous wastes at their source.
Under the Minnesota Electronics Recycling Act, the MPCA wishes to shift the responsibility for paying for collection and recycling of "covered electronic devices" away from the public sector, specifically local government.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's Emergency Response Program (ERP) oversees the cleanup of all types of spills and environmental emergencies.
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.
Guidance for small businesses on reporting air emissions.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has canceled portions of the current air quality alert for western and southern Minnesota. The alert runs until 11 p.m. on Friday, July 25. Fine particle levels are expected to reach the red air quality index (AQI) category, a level considered unhealthy for everyone, in east central Minnesota, and the orange AQI category, a level considered unhealthy for sensitive groups, across the remainder of the alert area.
Agropur Inc., doing business as Le Sueur Cheese Company, land applied too much industrial byproduct, resulting in rates of nitrogen and phosphorus that exceeded the allowed limits by more than 10 percent. The violations occurred in 2022, near its cheese production facility in Le Sueur, Minnesota.
Volkswagen settlement dollars are funding the replacement of older, dirtier diesel engines with newer, cleaner equipment.
To prevent food waste at its veterans homes, the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs used a $185,000 MPCA grant to purchase new meal-ordering technology.
In rules, an incorporation by reference states that the contents of another document are part of the rule, even though the text of the referenced document does not appear in the rule itself.
Climate adaptation identifies strategies and actions that help human and natural systems cope with and become more resilient to the impacts of climate change.
A watershed is the area of land where all of the water that drains off of it goes into the same place — a river, stream or lake.
MPCA recognized 253 municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants for outstanding operations in 2023.