{"id":3629,"date":"2026-08-31T22:40:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2026-08-31T22:40:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:40:46","slug":"climate-change-worsening-drought-conditions-in-western-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3629","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Worsening Drought Conditions in Western States"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Climate change has reduced snowpack by 36 percent and streamflow by 13 percent across the western United States, and more than half of those impacts have been triggered by emissions from fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers, according to a new report released today by University of California, Merced and Union of Concerned Scientists<\/a>. Additionally, the report ties one-tenth of the observed groundwater loss in California\u2019s Central Valley directly to emissions from these companies. In response, Aaron Regunberg, director of Public Citizen\u2019s Climate Accountability Project<\/strong>, issued the following statement: <\/p>\n

\u201cMillions of Americans are experiencing historic water scarcity. We now know that a small number of fossil fuel companies are responsible for a significant portion of this disaster. And they knew full well what they were doing. Already in 1988, companies like Shell were issuing internal reports<\/a> predicting that climate change\u2014caused by the burning of their fossil fuel products\u2014would create \u2018significant changes\u2019 in \u2018precipitation patterns\u2019 that \u2018would impact on the human environment, future living standards and food supplies\u2019 and could have \u2018major social, economic, and political consequences.\u2019 Yet fossil fuel companies lied to the public about this reality for decades, and continue to block the climate action we need to address this crisis. These companies need to face accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Climate change has reduced snowpack by 36 percent and streamflow by 13 percent across the western United States, and more than half of those impacts have been triggered by emissions from fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers, according to a new report released today by University of California, Merced and Union of Concerned Scientists. Additionally, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}