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A Cornell-Environmental Defense Fund research team equipped a Google Street View car with a high-precision methane sensor and found methane emissions from ammonia fertilizer plants to be 100 times higher than the fertilizer industry’s self-reported estimate.

Using a Google Street View car equipped with a high-precision methane sensor, the researchers discovered that methane emissions from ammonia fertilizer plants were 100 times higher than the fertilizer industry’s self-reported estimate.

They also were substantially higher than the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimate for all industrial processes in the United States. »

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As Google Ponders Making Ad Blockers Less Useful, Mozilla Ramps Up Tracker Blocking.

from the competing-for-your-privacy dept. Google found itself under fire last week after critics said the company was considering weakening ad blockers on the company's Chrome browser.

And should Google continue down the road to making adblock extensions less effective, Mozilla seems intent to fill the void. »

The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to give wireless carriers like Verizon the green light to block unwanted robocalls automatically for all customers.

The vote clears the way for carriers to switch on robocall-blocking technologies for phone lines by default.

Robocalls are automated phone calls people receive that often show up on caller ID as nearby phone numbers, or sometimes even their own number . »