The mother of Yeardley Love has sued her daughter’s ex-boyfriend and convicted killer, George Huguely V of Chevy Chase, for $30 million in damages, saying in a court filing Thursday that Huguely acted with “reckless indifference,” and “negligence” in Love’s 2010 death. Read full article > >

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Yeardley Love’s mother sues George Huguely

Talk about a genius public relations move. General Motors is making the Chevy Volt even more eco-friendly by building the newest units out of partially recycled equipment used in the fight to stop Gulf oil from spreading after the Deepwater Horizon disaster earlier this year. Oil booms are, generally speaking, tube-shaped cylinders of netting which contain some material used to block the spread of oil. In the case of the Gulf oil leak , most of that internal material was polypropylene, an oil-absorbent plastic–and an awful lot of it was used, saturated with oil, and discarded. But GM is taking a multi-step process to recycle that plastic. Heritage Environmental, a waste-disposal company, collects the booms, then passes the polypropylene to Mobile Fluid Recovery, which spins the material to separate the plastic from the oil and wastewater. Then Lucent Polymers treats the oil-less plastic, passes it to a GM plant which creates parts from it, and then to a GM assembly line. Read the full story at Popular Science .

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GM Making Chevy Volts With Recycled Deepwater Horizon Oil Containment Booms

What’s driving Obama’s subsidies of Chevy’s Volt?

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What’s driving Obama’s subsidies of Chevy’s Volt?

A 2002 Chevy SUV crashed into a Chicago apartment Saturday morning, landing on top of a 48-year-old woman who was asleep in her bed. Josefina Prospero was killed instantly, while her boyfriend, who was in bed with her at the time of the crash,…

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SUV Slams Into Chicago Home

General Motors’ Chevy Volt is finally here, heralded by a new TV ad. “This is America, man,” the narrator purrs, as the sun rises over a solitary Volt tooling along a country road. “So doesn’t it make sense that we build an electric car that goes far, really far?”

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Obama’s electric-car cult