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Learn what steps you can take to reduce the pollution from small neighborhood sources.

Across the state, water softeners contribute significantly to chloride pollution. Here’s how to make sure your water softener isn’t sending excess salt into the environment

Are pets affected by poor air quality? Will wearing a mask help when I’m outside? What is particulate pollution? We’ve got the answers.

Regular people are pretty good at judging water quality, and new research from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) proves it.

Excess nitrate remains a long-term challenge to manage. In our lakes, rivers, and streams, it is toxic to fish and other aquatic life. In drinking water, it can pose a risk to human health,…

Pig’s Eye Dump in Saint Paul has been slated for cleanup and restoration.

The Lake Superior - North Watershed covers over 1 million acres in the Northern Lakes and Forest ecoregion.

BALMM emphasizes land use practices to improve or protect water quality, particularly in the areas of watershed management, aquifer protection and floodplain management.

Minnesota has revised state water quality standards to incorporate a tiered aquatic life use (TALU) framework for rivers and streams.

A program to provide sustainable, longer-term funding a select number watersheds to make measurable and visible progress.

MPCA staff toured three farms in southeastern Minnesota. The purpose of external communications is to show that the agency cares about education and outreach, and we get out in the field to learn on site.

Thermal paper is thin with a slick feel or sheen finish and discolors easily when scratched.

The MPCA is authorized to develop numeric water quality criteria that apply specifically to a water body or region where the pollutant is found, using data from that water body or region.

Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality certified farms have added more than 2,000 new conservation practices, including over 110,000 acres of new cover crops that protect Minnesota’s waters.

The MPCA proposes adding 46 new impaired bodies of water and removing 45 impairments from bodies of water from the IWL, the most removals in a two-year cycle since the state began the IWL program in 1992.

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.

Guidance and recommendations for local officials dealing with public health issues related to blue-green algae.

Requirements for discharges from a project site and/or management control site(s).

The MPCA has announced 13 grant recipients that will receive a total of nearly $4.8 million for projects that will keep good food from going to waste in Minnesota while diverting usable food to people in need.

The Lake Superior - South Watershed covers 402,371 acres.