With Congress having sent a bill to the president, a lot of people inside and outside Washington will breathe a huge sigh of relief that the trauma is over. Now get ready for the next set of "my way or the highway" showdowns.

To defend US interests in the Asia-Pacific region, policymakers must ensure the nation has the necessary air power capabilities to contend with the vast distances, limited basing options, and pronounced threat to assured success.

The effort to ban Bisphenol A, a polycarbonate plastic, as harmful to human beings is misguided.

As scientists confront the challenge of how to regulate plasticizers—chemicals that make plastics soft, transparent and durable—the European Union is moving towards a model that US regulators should emulate.

By maintaining a focus on encouraging domestic natural gas production, we can make the United States more energy independent, minimize the environmental impact of producing energy and foster economic and job growth.

Now that European scientists have declared human use of fossil fuels to be the cause of global warming, what are European politicians going to do about it?

The market for counterfeit products is barely understood. Not all counterfeiting is deceptive, so what is the best policy to deal with that reality?

Feed-in tariffs and solar energy make sense in the right situations, but must yield tangible benefits based on carbon reduction and market efficiency.