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Minnesota regulators identified another 20 bodies of water used for wild rice production that exceeded the state’s wild rice sulfate water quality standard, placing the 13 lakes and seven streams on its biennial impaired-waters list. In doing so, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency opted to follow the federal Clean Water Act over a 2015 state […]

A group opposed to mining near the Boundary Waters hopes that adding Birch Lake will make permitting a copper-nickel mine more difficult.

MANKATO — The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is proposing to remove two Blue Earth County water bodies from Minnesota’s impaired waters list and is not proposing to add any new

State officials are proposing to add 54 lakes and streams to the list of Minnesota waters considered impaired because of pollution. The list includes a large lake on the border of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness that exceeds the state’s wild rice sulfate standard.