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George Allen focuses on defense in Chantilly

AFP

George Allen continued his Virginia Voices tour in Chantilly on Tuesday with a focus on people who could be affected by the looming $500 Billion defense cuts scheduled to begin at the end of the year. Allen toured First Line Technology, a small business that manufactures emergency response equipment and human protection materials

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Allen tours Chester manufacturing facility

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George Allen took his “Virginia Voices” campaign to Chester on Tuesday to hear directly from a locally-owned manufacturing business, Progressive Engineering and Progressive Heat Treating. He was joined by Chesterfield County Board of Supervisor Dorothy Jaeckle and Chesterfield County GOP Chairman Don Williams to tour one of Chester’s innovative job creators

Earth Talk: Making renewable energies competitive

Roddy Scheer

Given the importance of abundant amounts of energy for Americans, the federal government tends to subsidize all forms of energy development, including fossil fuels and renewables. A recently released report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found that in 2011 the federal government spent $16 billion of our tax dollars in subsidies for the development of renewable energy and increased energy efficiency, and only $2.5 billion in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry in the form of tax breaks