Big Oil and Gas Companies Are Partly Responsible for California’s Water Woes, Study Finds

Big oil and gas companies are partly responsible for California’s water woes, study finds

LOS ANGELES — In the last few years, multiple studies have shown that global warming is intensifying drought and worsening water scarcity in California and the western United States.

Climate Change Worsening Drought Conditions in Western States

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 Califor...

Study blames fossil fuel emissions for significant loss of American West's water

“People living in the western United States have been paying the price for climate-change-fueled droughts and fires with their health, livelihoods and wallets,” said Emily Williams, the study’s lead author …

122 Companies Are Quietly Sucking the West Dry, Study Finds

A first-of-its-kind study found that carbon-major emissions have drained trillions of gallons of water from the West.

The biggest carbon polluters are to blame for half of U.S. western water lost to climate change, ‘groundbreaking’ paper says

Some of the most impactful changes have come in the stressed Colorado River basin.