Minneapolis resident Harry Weiss looks on as a volunteer technician at Free Geek examines his broken stereo. Harry Weiss wasn’t quite ready to give up on his old stereo when its radio stopped playing. Then, he spotted a notice in his neighborhood …
Hot, sunny weather brings the possibility of air quality alerts due to ozone. But what exactly is ozone? Does it help protect Earth from being fried by the sun? Or is it a harmful ground-level air pollutant? Is it natural or man-made? In fact, it’s all of …
What this alert means The air quality index (AQI) is color-coded. Air quality alerts are issued when the AQI is forecast to reach an unhealthy level, which includes forecasts in the orange, red, purple, and maroon categories. For a full description of each …
Throughout Minnesota’s long winters, plastic-wrapped boats stand dormant in marinas, storage yards, and alongside garages, waiting — like their owners — to be out on open water again. When spring finally arrives, the unwrapping begins. The process yields …
Today, the MPCA recommended drilling a series of wells around the East Metro to pump and treat groundwater for pollution from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). This recommendation is part of a broad effort to clean up a plume of PFAS …
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) today released the draft 2026 impaired waters list (IWL), which identifies lakes, rivers, streams, and wetlands across Minnesota that do not currently meet all water quality standards. The MPCA proposes adding …
Bailey Builds, an art studio in Duluth, is on the site of a former gas station. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) celebrated numerous major achievements cleaning up and rehabilitating polluted properties in its 2025 annual report on brownfields …
Photo credit: Ashley Sullivan What began as a small brewing project has grown into something much larger for Sandy and Jay Boss Febbo. Their brewery is a space where water, land, and community all come together. After years of home brewing, they built …
As Resource Renew launches three multi-family organics drop sites in Duluth, the agency will collect food scraps from tenants and neighborhood residents to become compost, keeping upwards of 2,000 tons of food scraps out of the landfill each year. (Photo …
Conditions are ripe again for smoke from wildfires in Canada to descend into Minnesota and create poor air quality that can impact Minnesotans' health. Wildfires are becoming larger and more frequent during the summer months in the United States and …
As spring arrives in Minnesota, it’s time for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to kick off its popular program that relies on Minnesotans to monitor our 12,000+ lakes and 92,000+ miles of streams: the Volunteer Water Monitoring Program. The …
Regular people are pretty good at judging water quality, and new research from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) proves it. In an academic paper published in February, MPCA scientists studied 35 years of data, stretching from 1987 to 2022, from …
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