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Each year, Minnesotans throw away more than 850,000 tons of recyclables, worth around $153 million. Here's how we're reducing those numbers in Greater Minnesota.
Dakota County is now hosting We Are Water MN, a traveling exhibit and community engagement program that explores Minnesotans’ relationships with water.
Minnesota’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions dropped by 14% between 2005 and 2022, according to a biennial report from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and Minnesota Department of Commerce
To reduce the pollution that causes climate change, Minnesota has set goals to cut our collective greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and track progress.
From 2023-2025, Northshore Mining released recycled water to the ground seven times and water relating to mining processes four times. Its largest unpermitted release was nearly 400,000 gallons of recycled water. Northshore Mining has documented equipment failure as the reason for the 11 releases.
Minnesota businesses, organizations, and municipalities seeking or holding MPCA wastewater permits are charged two basic types of permit fees: application fees and annual fees.
A water quality variance is a temporary change in a state's water quality standard for a specific pollutant and its relevant criteria, allowing deviation from meeting a water quality-based effluent limit for a particular discharger.
The MPCA completed 78 enforcement cases for water quality, air quality, waste, stormwater, and wastewater violations in the second half of 2025, for a total of 146 for the year.
Central Specialties Inc., based in Alexandria, violated several air permit conditions between 2021 and 2023 for its mobile hot-mix asphalt facility stationed at various locations around the state. Violations included failing to properly maintain pollution control equipment and inadequate recordkeeping and reporting.
The discharges in summer 2024 happened during the construction of the MnDOT truck facility in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
MPCA plans to amend existing Minnesota Rules governing permits and solid waste landfills (chapters 7001 and 7035).
Dairy will pay a fine and take corrective steps for improperly discharging industrial waste into a city curb and gutter stormwater system in Nicollet County.
Project began construction in October 2022 without a stormwater permit or a stormwater pollution prevention plan, and failed to install erosion and sediment controls at a pond and wetland improvement site near Finlayson, Minn.
Elk River Landfill, Inc. proposes a northward expansion of its landfill into Livonia Township.
Image Air quality is expected to reach the orange AQI category in northern Minnesota, which is unhealthy for sensitive groups.The Minnesota Pollution…
Profile of Julia Dady, a volunteer water monitor for Battle Creek in Saint Paul.
The MPCA is seeking public comment on a proposed increase in the amount and types of waste that Curbside Waste Inc. processes at its transfer station facility in Dayton.
The MPCA had $5 million available to support the implementation of projects to increase resilience to the impacts of climate change in communities across Minnesota.
As part of the PFAS pollution prevention law called Amara’s Law, manufacturers are required to report intentionally added PFAS in products sold in Minnesota and pay a fee. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has extended the reporting due date to Sept. 15, 2026.