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

Superfund requires specific investigation and cleanup processes, designates parties that are legally responsible for the cleanup, and provides funds for certain types of cleanups under Minnesota’s Environmental Response and Liability Act (MERLA).

Guidance on NPDES/SDS construction stormwater requirements

Thanks to years of restoration efforts, the MPCA confirmed the Kabekona River meets water quality standards for recreation and proposed its removal from the 2026 impaired waters list.

Pesticide NPDES permit steps to compliance Step 4: Report adverse pesticide incidents

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

Important details to help make your e-Service administrative submittal go as smoothly as possible.

Minnesota industrial facilities that are required to submit Form R reports for Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) chemicals under the state and federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (…

An electronics collector is a public or private entity that receives electronic devices from households and arranges for the delivery of the devices to a recycler. In Minnesota, electronics…

The MPCA works with partners throughout Minnesota each year to gauge the health of waters and identify stressors that harm fish and other aquatic life.

Keep It Clean focuses on the growing problem of garbage and human waste left on the ice by anglers and other visitors during ice fishing season.

Starting Jan. 1, 2025, the first prohibitions of products containing intentionally added PFAS took effect in Minnesota.

The MPCA has started a study intended to understand and document the variation in naturally occurring sulfate levels across the state.

As Minnesotans prepare for another summer of outdoor activities, MPCA meteorologists are forecasting a moderately active air quality season.

The kind of permit a facility needs depends on how much air pollution the facility could emit based on its equipment or processes.

Profile of Julia Dady, a volunteer water monitor for Battle Creek in Saint Paul.

With 100 days until a law aimed at removing PFAS from consumer products goes into effect, state leaders celebrate three Minnesota-based companies already offering goods made without PFAS.

Chrome-plating facility in St. Louis Park is the alleged source of pollution in local lakes.

Facilities that produce air emissions can benefit by proposing limits on their own operations to avoid certain types of regulatory requirements. You might accept limits to stay under emission…

First of a series of MPCA staff profiles. Kevin Stroom conducts research on streams and has published a report about Straight River.