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The Minnesota Environmental Partnership is sending a tongue-in-cheek message to legislators: Enjoy your wild rice hotdish now - before Minnesota's waters are too contaminated to produce the official state grain.
What does the Japanese nuclear accident mean for US policy?
Japanese officials say a partial meltdown occurred and radiation levels are still too high for repair crews to go inside. An international meeting in Ukraine seeks funding for a containment shelter, 25 years after the Chernobyl accident. A nuclear engineer joins Midday to answer questions about nuclear power plants.
Columbus: Wolves
Group howls and hunts and the Wildlife Science Center.
Angling and hunting groups seem to favor raising them to help the cash-strapped department; Republicans in St. Paul aren't so sure.
New climate change case headed to Supreme Court
The Obama administration and environmental interests generally agree that global warming is a threat that must be dealt with. But they're on opposite sides of a Supreme Court case over the ability of states and groups such as the Audubon Society that want to sue large electric utilities and force power plants to cut their emissions.