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Joseph Nadeau is an Associate Justice of the NH Supreme Court, and for several years he?s been traveling abroad teaching developing countries about the US legal system. On behalf of the American Bar Association, he?s been to Central and Eastern Europe, and he recently visited Algeria. He talked about these experiences, the challenges facing Algeria, and how the trips have changed his own work and ideas about the law.

The Department of Environmental Services is evaluating a pilot program that changes the way contractors are paid to clean up polluted sites. Rather than a pay-as-you-go process, this new method would pay contractors as they reached milestones throughout the project. Two months ago, Marin Environmental began cleaning up diesel and gasoline spills in West Canaan. Marin hydrologist, Ron Miller, works at the Vermont office. The Green Mountain state has already implemented the pay-for-performance approach, and Miller tells NHPR's Dan Gorenstein the benefits far outweigh the risks.