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STAFF BLOG CAPITOL CHATTER MPCA credits 1972 law for cleaning waters
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency sings praises of the federal Clean Water Act, passed in 1972. The MPCA reminded Minnesotans that an Ohio river fouled with contaminants and inadequately treated...
Posted on 10/19/12 at 2:49 PM
AREA NEWS: American Legion Post celebrates birthday; MPCA: prepare fuel tanks for flooding 
American Legion Post No. 6 of Grand Forks will have a “Happy 92nd Birthday” celebration beginning at 6 p.m. March 15 in the sixth floor of the Grand Forks County Office Building, 151 S. Fourth St., Grand Forks
By Herald Staff Report , March 03, 2011
MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE: Bill streamlines permit process ...State worker pay freeze? ... Keeping road-kill deer
Minnesota representatives voted Thursday night to speed up the state environmental permitting process in an attempt to attract more business and help existing businesses to expand.
By Don Davis , February 10, 2011
American Crystal in East Grand Forks fined by state
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency fined the sugar beet plant in East Grand Forks $50,000 last quarter.
By Herald Staff Report , February 07, 2011
Fines few for some polluters in Minnesota
A recent Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy analysis of all wastewater permit violations reported to the agency from 2005 through 2009 shows two-thirds violated permits at least once. Yet only 11 percent of those violators paid a financial penalty.
By Dennis Lien , December 20, 2010
Minnesota PCA sued over wild rice rules
The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce filed suit Friday against the state claiming wild rice pollution protection standards are overly restrictive and based on poor science.
By John Myers , December 18, 2010
Final MPCA hearing denies Excel Dairy's permit effort
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s Citizens Advisory Board has unanimously denied an appeal of its earlier decision not to reissue a permit to the rural Thief River Falls dairy, which was declared a public health hazard in 2008.
By Kevin Bonham , December 16, 2010
AROUND MINNESOTA: Bois Forte gets land archive ... Petition aims to oust Vizenor ... Consultant to visit Waubun school ... more
The Bois Forte Band of Chippewa received a valuable collection of documents of the prominent Ely-based forester and land appraiser J. William John Trygg.
By Forum Communications/Associated Press , April 26, 2010
Families near TRF dairy take frustrations to Capitol
Residents from near Excel Dairy drove to St. Paul on Thursday to tell their plight. And senators were shocked to hear that unhealthy levels of manure fumes have surrounded their homes hundreds of times since the spring of 2007 despite two state agencies’ attempts to correct the situation.
By Don Davis , January 21, 2010
MPCA takes steps to close TRF dairy
Officials with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency are moving toward a shutdown of a smelly dairy near Thief River Falls.
By Associated Press , January 21, 2010
Counties may wait out MPCA on individual sewer rules
Although mandated to adopt new rules governing on-site sewer treatment systems by Feb. 4, Beltrami County commissioners plan to let that date slide.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency revised its rules, and counties must adopt the changes by Feb. 4. But the changes will cost money and require counties to hire more staff, which they are bucking.
By Brad Swenson , January 09, 2010
Judge rules TRF dairy must clean up ponds by June 15
A Marshall County District Court Judge on Friday signed a court order requiring the company that owns a rural Thief River Falls dairy to have all manure cleaned from its holding ponds by June 15.
January 08, 2010
Judge cancels hearing in TRF dairy suit
A hearing was canceled Tuesday in Marshall County District Court in a civil suit filed by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency against a rural Thief River Falls dairy.
By Kevin Bonham , December 15, 2009
Failing Williams sewage plant threatens Lake of the Woods
A sewage treatment plant in Williams, Minn., near Lake of the Woods is failing and threatens to dump thousands of gallons of raw sewage into the big international lake.
By Dan Gunderson , November 04, 2009
Environmental group looks at Minnesota water pollution
Other rivers in Minnesota with large amounts of toxic dumping included the Rainy, the Minnesota and the St. Croix.
By Associated Press , October 21, 2009
OUR OPINION: Put dairy's permit on the line
The MPCA should reject Excel Dairy's application unless the dairy’s owners can show they’re making good-faith efforts to comply with state rules.
October 08, 2009
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