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Composting your Halloween jack-o'-lantern is a good way to keep it out of the landfill. So is giving it to a local farmer.

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

In Minnesota, about 18,000 regulated underground storage tanks (UST) are in use. State rules specify requirements for underground storage tanks (UST) that store petroleum or hazardous substances, and any piping or other structures that are part of the tank systems.

The Mississippi River - La Crescent Watershed drains 95 square miles in Houston and southeast Winona counties, an area defined by wooded bluffs and spring-fed cold-water streams that flow directly to the Mississippi River.

Investments in electric vehicle charging stations around Minnesota.

The MPCA offered approximately $12.5 million in grant funding for projects that will prevent wasted food from being generated, prevent food from going to waste, or projects that rescue edible food from disposal and redirect it for human consumption in Minnesota.

BMPs required to manage the slurry to comply with Minnesota statute and agency rules to protect water quality.

MPCA's Closed Landfill Program is a voluntary program established in 1994 to properly close, monitor, and maintain Minnesota's closed municipal sanitary landfills.

While hundreds of fish kills occur in Minnesota every year, mostly in lakes and ponds, fish kills on trout streams in southeast Minnesota are much less common.

The new commercial organics collection will service a 20- to 30-stop route across both Hubbard and Beltrami counties.

Minnesota state agencies and local governments are working together to protect drinking water supplies.

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

Minnesota’s Digital Fair Repair Act went into effect July 1. Here’s why it matters and how you can use it to save money and the environment

Eight grant recipients will receive $302,173 for projects that will make the state’s soil healthier and reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. All are focused on composting organic waste in multi-resident housing.

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…

Pollutant and runoff maps and data for major watersheds; watershed monitoring and assessment reports.

Minnesotans are encouraged to share feedback through Nov. 9, 2025

Volunteers can search for a lake or stream site that works for them and sign up to monitor it.

Solving the problem of oversalted sidewalks is elementary!

MPCA completed 100 enforcement cases for water quality, air quality, waste, stormwater, and wastewater violations in the first half of 2024