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Image Stormwater has an enormous impact on water quality in Minnesota, whether it's runoff from farm fields or from urban hardscapes. Rain and snow…
Carba, a Minnesota-based company focused on carbon-capture technology, took home the MPCA’s Green and Sustainable Chemistry Prize at the 2023 MN Cup
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.
The MPCA is collaborating with many federal, Tribal, state, and local partners to clean up contaminated sites in the Duluth harbor and St. Louis River.
The MPCA uses the EQuIS database to store and manage monitoring data and associated laboratory results from streams, lakes, groundwater, ambient air, soil, sediment, and gas, collected through MPCA programs and partnerships.
Minnesota's strategic, coordinated approach to protecting families and communities from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
3M will use an advanced wastewater treatment system to remove per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from its Chemical Operations facility in Cottage Grove.
The MPCA is committed to engaging broadly with the public and ensuring that residents affected by its decisions have a voice in its processes.
The Minnesota River - Mankato Watershed covers 861,886 acres across Cottonwood, Brown, Redwood, Renville, Sibley, Nicollet, Blue Earth, and Le Sueur counties in south-central Minnesota.
The MPCA offers other types of funding for use by specialists or with more involved eligibility requirements. Funding for site cleanup: Supports the clean up of contaminated properties SSTS…
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 (…
The Metropolitan Council proposes adding a fourth wastewater incinerator which requires an amendment to the facility’s current air emissions permit.
The MPCA has developed guidance on a number of topics to assist real estate developers, environmental engineers, remediation consultants, and others in addressing brownfields and contaminated sites.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency places members with host sites throughout Minnesota each year. Members serve full-time for 11 months (Sept. 2026 through Aug. 20227) at environmental nonprofits, government agencies, and educational institutions.
Dem-Con Landfill proposes to build a new municipal solid waste landfill at its environmental campus near Shakopee. It plans to convert 2.2 million cubic yards covering an approximately 81-acre fill area of its permitted construction and demolition landfill into a new municipal solid waste landfill. The creation of a new MSW landfill of this size requires the project to go through the environmental impact statement process.
The MPCA studies, monitors, and regulates many land pollutants that affect the quality of life in Minnesota and the health of residents.
Permits help the MPCA protect the environment.
Requirements for discharges from a project site and/or management control site(s).
Environmental information and resources for the aggregate industry.
The MPCA has announced that 7 grant recipients will receive a total of $4.5 million for projects that expand or improve the efficiency of organics management operations in Minnesota.