{
  "id": 3737925,
  "title": "Major polluters are worsening the Western US water crisis: A new way to measure who's responsible",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/major-polluters-are-worsening-the-western-us-water-crisis-a-new-way",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-27T12:20:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-major-polluters-worsening-western-crisis.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Climate change was once something scientists warned us about, and now it's a reality we are living in. In California's Central Valley, about one-third of climate-related groundwater loss between 2003 and 2024 can be attributed to emissions from the same actors. Scientists call them the \"Carbon Majors,\" a group of 122 corporations that are the world's largest producers of oil, gas, coal and cement.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}