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New Hampshire’s Attorney General’s office is expected to decide in coming months whether to sue oil companies over MTBE contamination of the state’s water supplies.
Originally put into gas to clean auto emissions, MTBE has polluted thousands of groundwater sources across the country.
One lawsuit against several oil companies is before a jury in California.
Another is going forward in Rhode Island, as correspondent Av Harris reports from Providence.

State employees are eligible for a new contest.

If they work in one of the 1100 state owned and operated facilities - anything from a shed to an office building - they could win up to 10 thousand dollars.

Hamilton McLean is the state's Energy Manager.

He described the contest's rules to NHPR's Mark Bevis.

Parents and school administrators are especially sensitive about students mistreating their peers these days. But our guest says, adults often identify the wrong culprits and misuse zero-tolerance policies. We?ll talk about that and finding the line between teasing and bullying. Laura speaks with students from Weare Middle School wms.weare.k12.nh.us and William Preble, president of Main Street Academix www.mainstreetacademix.org and associate professor of education at New England College www.nec.org.

Today is a big day for officials and employees at the Timberland Company. It's their 5th annual Day of Service, they call it Servapalooza. And this year organizers have included Timberland workers in factories abroad. As Company President and CEO tells NHPR's Mark Bevis, the Day of Service is an integral part of Timberland's corporate philosophy.

Birders have been heading to NH's Pondicherry National Wildlife Refuge in Whitefield and Jefferson. Some unusual birds have been spotted among the more than 200 recorded overall in the area. Birders suspect many were blown off course by the windy spring, but some may simply be attracted to the State's newest National Refuge. NHPR Correspondent Rebecca Brown reports from Littleton.