Following a discovery by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) that a metal recycler was not following its air permit, a judge this week ordered a key portion of a…
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Minnesota App Allows Users to Know ‘What’s in My Neighborhood’
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s (MPCA’s) “What’s in My Neighborhood” online application offers users a way to access a wide variety of environmental information about their communities. The application uses…
Minnesota Remediation Division Introduces New Vapor Intrusion BMPs
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Remediation Division recently announced its development of five Vapor Intrusion (VI) Best Management Practices. The VI map templates illustrate vapor sources, investigation locations, and…
MPCA, U.S. EPA Reach $1.5 Million Settlement with Sugar Beet Processor
On May 12, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and U.S. EPA announced a settlement with the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative over water and air quality pollution violations. The…
Minnesota Kicks off Statewide Safe Water Efforts
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Commissioner John Linc Stine shared the stage with Governor Mark Dayton at an event promoting Water Action Week, an initiative calling on Minnesotans to take specific…
States Use EPA Software to Predict Water Quality at Beaches
To protect public health, beach managers need to continually assess the level of potentially harmful microbes (primarily bacteria) in the water. However, traditional, culture-based testing methods take a full 24…
Minnesota Works with EPA to Assess River Conditions
The St. Louis River is listed as a Great Lakes Area of Concern (AOC) under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1987 and is the only AOC in Minnesota.…
Minnesota PCA Releases Performance Measures Dashboard
On March 16, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) released their 2016 Environmental and Performance Measures Dashboard. The dashboard tracks several relevant environmental and performance measures related to MPCA’s work…
Minnesota Governor’s Statewide Water Summit Engages All via Social Media
This weekend, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton will host his first Governor’s Water Summit to call attention to the challenges facing Minnesota’s water supplies in rural and urban areas of the…
Seventeen State Governors Commit to Clean Energy Accord
In an historic move, 17 state Governors this week signed the Governors’ Accord for a New Energy Future. Democratic and Republican signatories to the accord commit that their states will…
