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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.
MPCA awards $2.4 million to eight organizations for projects focused on sustainable building and materials management strategies that reduce waste and increase deconstruction, salvage, and reuse in Minnesota.
From January through March 2025, MPCA air monitoring data showed elevated lead levels that exceeded national ambient air quality standards near the facility. An MPCA inspection of Gopher Resource in spring 2025 confirmed that the source of the elevated lead levels was addressed.
Minnesota's law relating to the collection and recycling of video display devices ("televisions" and "computer monitors") sold to households/consumers was signed into law in May 2007.
MPCA’s work on the climate-smart food systems grant from the EPA is ongoing amid strong interest
The MPCA has a mobile air monitoring program that allows the agency to respond faster to community air quality concerns across the state. The mobile air monitor collects data in areas where permanent…
When temperatures climb, conditions are ripe for Minnesota lakes to produce algae blooms, some of which can be harmful to pets and humans.
MPCA guidance for evaluating when closed landfills may exit the postclosure care phase.
New MPCA report monitors PFAS sources and movement, provides direction for preventing and managing PFAS pollution.
MPCA keeps its public data easily accessible for convenient use.
The Keep It Clean campaign, a 2023 Minnesota law, and many partners working together are adding up to less garbage and waste left behind on frozen lakes.
The Floristic Quality Assessment (FQA) is a vegetation-based ecological assessment approach that can be used for wetland quality monitoring and assessment.
Our climate has already changed and will continue to change. Minnesotans are feeling impacts of climate change, from higher temperatures, more extreme storms with intense flooding, and changes in our…
Initiatives passed during the 2023 legislative session invest hundreds of millions of dollars to advance Minnesota’s Climate Action Framework.
The MPCA gave an environmental award to the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, which sold land so it could become a watershed wetland in Baxter. The project is being finalized in summer 2024.
Demonstration/research projects (DRPs) allow permittees to explore potential beneficial uses or new methods of solid waste management through a limited-scale project.
Organizations that want to reuse materials in ways not classified as standing beneficial uses must apply to the MPCA for a case specific beneficial use.
Environmental information and resources for the aggregate industry.
From shorter winter ice seasons to shifting fish populations, climate change is transforming Minnesota lakes as we know them.
Before Laura Mendoza Romero got involved with shoreline restoration, she remembers going on boat rides and seeing all the different landscapes along the shore. Some houses you could barely see…