MCEA strives to protect and defend all Minnesotans’ right to live in a healthy environment through our policy work, scientific research, communications and outreach, and legislative advocacy. MCEA has developed an innovative approach to environmental health advocacy that can best be described as a science-based precautionary stance. In practice, this means that MCEA applies its scientific and legal expertise toward advocating for policies that protect human health from hazardous environmental pollutants.

What is environmental health? Learn more from the World Health Organization and American Public Health Association, which have both defined the term.

Recent reporting details the difficulty in finding chemical culprits

Magazine piece delves into chemicals in the environment and how they can make us sick, while also reinforcing MCEA's chemical work..

Bill will protect Minnesota children from Lead

An MCEA bill to protect children from lead passed the Legislature

Atrazine linked to human birth defects, MCEA says in comments

State agencies excluded key studies of people when they concluded current regulations for the chemical atrazine were fine. Those studies found a link to birth defects and the regulations must be tougher.

Appeals Court: Fibers in Silver Bay air still must be no more than St. Paul's air

The "control city standard" remains the law, but only through state permits, not federal court injunction, according to a  federal court of appeals

Impaired fertility linked to levels of PFCs found in tested East Metro residents

The average levels of some PFCs in tested residents was at or above the level scientific studies have found could impair fertility in men and women and were significantly higher than the national average.

Public Health group endorses MCEA proposal for tougher lead standard

Minnesota Public Health Association passed a resolution backing MCEA's efforts for tougher state guidelines in fighting children's exposure to lead.

Law conceived by MCEA receives its first test