Minnesota Environmental Control Citizens Association.

The Minnesota Environmental Control Citizens Association (MECCA) is a citizen action group organized in St. Paul in 1968 to oppose the depletion of natural resources and the pollution of air, water and soil. Its activities include research and evaluation of pollution problems, legislative lobbying, publicity and educational programs, and monitoring of agency and public meetings and hearings related to environmental issues in Minnesota.

Some of its primary concerns have been nuclear, thermal and emission pollution from Northern States Power Company nuclear generating plants; problems of nuclear power in general, and a proposed nuclear moratorium; dumping of taconite wastes into Lake Superior; mining and logging in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area; watershed drainage and lake pollution in several locales; a proposed coal terminal at Pig's Eye Lake; the actions of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency; airports and noise pollution; a proposed metropolitan airport at Ham Lake; household ecology; and recycling.

From the guide to the MECCA records., 1958-2004., (Minnesota Historical Society)