Minnesota Environmental Quality Board. Water program
The Environmental Quality Board is charged with coordinating state water resource management activities. It is responsible for developing the state water plan, a state water monitoring plan, biennial water policy and priorities reports, and biennial reports on trends in water quality and availability and research needs.
Minnesota Environmental Quality Board. Energy Facility Permitting
Minnesota Environmental Quality Board. Sustainable development initiative
Finding solutions that benefit people, business and the environment.
The Minnesota Sustainable Development Initiative was based on the common-sense belief that if Minnesota's prosperity is to be sustained over time, what is good for business, the environment and communities must eventually become one and the same. This is the essential challenge of sustainable development.
Minnesota Environmental Quality Board. Radioactive waste program
Minnesota has
three operating commercial nuclear power reactors. Two reactors are located near
Red Wing, Minnesota, at the Prairie Island facility and one reactor is located
near Monticello, Minnesota. All are owned by Xcel Energy. Prairie Island
generates about 1060 MW of electricity, and Monticello generates about 553
MW. Spent nuclear fuel is stored in pools at both reactor sites, and in
addition, the Prairie Island facility stores spent nuclear waste in casks
maintained above ground at the reactor site.