Saul Elbein

A coalition of 22 state attorneys general is calling on Congress to address “the glaring vagueness” that has led to legal cannabis products being sold over the counter across the country — including sometimes from vending machines or online. A letter dated March 20 addresses the consequences of Republican lawmakers' choice to legalize hemp production in the 2018 omnibus Farm Bill...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is investigating a major supplier of aerospace company Boeing, whose flagship 737 MAX aircraft has been linked to a series of deadly accidents since 2018. "The potential risks associated with certain airplane models are deeply concerning and potentially life-threatening to Texans,” Paxton said in a statement. Paxton ordered Spirit Aerosystems...

Iowa's food landscape can become like Italy's — if the “barons” who captured the American farmstand can be defeated, a new book argues. Barons, published on Tuesday by Austin Frerick, a native Iowan and Yale food policy fellow, argues that a runaway process of monopoly has gutted rural America while bleeding the taste from American food....

Advances in oil and gas drilling have cut costs for a form of clean power that could help replace fossil fuels, according to the Department of Energy. Now the agency is going all in on geothermal energy, which uses heat from deep within the Earth to produce largely pollution-free electricity. The agency projects that geothermal...

Welcome to The Hill's Sustainability newsletter {beacon} Sustainability Sustainability   The Big Story How to help grid stay out of a 'canyon' Electric utilities are scrambling to meet a rapid rise in projected power demand — but solutions are on the horizon. © AP Photo/Ng Han Guan That’s according to Arshad Mansoor, president and...

An attempt by Texas's top Republican officials to purge the party of the incumbents who defied them made significant ground in Tuesday's primary. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton had all targeted a slate of 16 Republican lawmakers who had defied them — endorsing opponents and pouring money into the races...

Rep. Colin Allred (D) will lead Texas Democrats in their November attempt to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R).  Allred was projected to beat his more progressive opponent, state Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D), in the primary, according to Decision Desk HQ. No Democrat has won a Senate Race in Texas since 1988 — but with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) retiring this...

Crude oil siphoned from pipelines to fuel the international cocaine trade is tearing oozing, toxic holes in the forests of western Colombia, Reuters reported. In the forests, traffickers and paramilitaries brew homemade gasoline from oil stolen from pipelines, according to the outlet. The illicit gasoline — brewed in clandestine refineries — is used to extract cocaine from...