Articles by Grist staff

Al Gore and IPCC awarded Nobel Peace Prize, climate protests heat up worldwide, and more

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U.K. politician wants to power every British home with wind by 2020

Every home in the United Kingdom could be powered by offshore wind farms by 2020, says John Hutton, Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise, and Regulatory Reform. The long-titled Hutton said that investment in 7,000 turbines would admittedly change Britain’s coastline and raise energy costs in the short term, but would be “a major contribution […]

U.S. government wants to boost fish-farming industry

Eighty percent of American fish dishes are imported, and the federal government is eager to get the U.S. seafood market on equal footing (finning?) by kicking off industrial-scale fish farming in the Gulf of Mexico. Under regulations to be considered next month, fish born in laboratories would be transported to gigantic underwater cages capable of […]

Canadian outdoor-goods retailer won’t sell plastic water bottles

Mountain Equipment Co-op, Canada’s largest outdoor-goods retailer, has yanked Nalgene bottles and other polycarbonate plastic containers from its shelves, concerned about toxic bisphenol A leaching from the plastic. MEC — the Canadian equivalent of U.S.-based retailer REI — has been one of Canada’s largest sellers of the bottles. Canada’s health agency is currently studying the […]