The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has designated Circular Action Alliance (CAA) as its producer responsibility organization (PRO) under the state’s new Packaging Waste & Cost Reduction Act. Enacted in…
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Minnesota Marks 100 Days Until PFAS Prevention Law Takes Effect
Last week, ECOS Cross-Media Committee Chair and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Commissioner Katrina Kessler joined other Minnesota state leaders to celebrate the work of three Minnesota-based companies already making…
State Innovation Video 2024: Minnesota Increasing Diversity in Environmental Careers Program
Revised Toxicokinetic Model of Bioaccumulative PFAS
Presents an updated method, of which a handful of states base their PFAS standards off of, to determine how PFAS accumulates in human bodies from birth through childhood.
Minnesota PFAS Monitoring Plan
Provides early results and follow-up actions based on monitoring for PFAS at permitted solidwaste, hazardous waste, wastewater, and stormwater facilities, and facilities with airemissions permits, as well as information on…
Great Lakes Consortium for Fish Consumption Advisories’ Best Practice for PFOS Guidelines
Recommendations on PFOS consumption advisory levels from a collaboration of fish advisory program managers in eight states and Canada, based on the 2016 EPA Drinking Water Health Advisory.
Minnesota Highlights Strategies to Protect Watershed
A new Minnesota Pollution Control Agency report outlines strategies to protect and improve the Root River Watershed in Southeast Minnesota. The report recognizes the efforts of the Minnesota Board of…
State Innovation Video 2023: Minnesota Drone Technology
Minnesota Information on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
Groundbreaking Minnesota Study Shows High Costs of PFAS Removal and Destruction
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has published a new report finding that technologies needed to remove PFAS from wastewater streams across Minnesota would cost between $14 and $28B over…
