Opinion: Governor must integrate justice into state water policy – San Jose Mercury/East Bay Times 9/18/21 Water allocations failing to give tribal communities and communities of color an equal voice “Northern California tribes fear coming years could see the unnecessary extinction of salmon runs central to our religion and culture. For the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, one of...Read More
– Tim Stroshane, Policy Analyst, Restore the Delta If the California Department of Water Resources says it, it must be official: “Most of the Delta qualifies as an environmental justice community,” said DWR environmental program manager Carrie Buckman at last Thursday evening’s Delta Conveyance Project Environmental Justice webinar. It was a welcome statement of a fact that...Read More
Restore the Delta has been tracking what is happening in Sacramento with the aid of several partner organizations. Language and bills have evolved. Here is what we have learned. Thanks to leadership in both the State Assembly and Senate, they have curtailed the Newsom Administration’s efforts to loosen up CEQA requirements for Delta tunnel construction. We are...Read More
As we stated in our Sunday newsletter, the Newsom Administration is trying to move forward with disingenuous Delta watershed restoration bills that replace water with habitat (instead of doing both). This is part of their full court press to create “voluntary agreements” to fill the Delta tunnel. We need you to call your legislator and Governor Newsom’s office...Read More
Govenor Newsom is trying to slip in pro-tunnel language into the CEQA exemption trailer. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) generally requires state and local government agencies to inform decision makers and the public about the potential environmental impacts of proposed projects, and to reduce those environmental impacts to the extent feasible. Call your legislator and Governor...Read More
by Tim Stroshane, Policy Analyst, Restore the DeltaAfter the Wednesday evening “climate change” edition webinar for the Delta Conveyance Project presented by the California Department of Water Resources, I found myself remembering the Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. In the spring of 1967, Komarov gave his life for the Soviet space “team.” When I was nine and...Read More
For Immediate Release: 8/5/21 Contact: Tim Stroshane, Restore the Delta, 510-847-7556, spillwayguy@gmail.com SACRAMENTO – On August 3rd, Restore the Delta signed on to an environmental water coalition letter to all 120 state legislators—40 in the state senate, and 80 in the assembly—opposing Governor Gavin Newsom’s requests for nearly half a billion dollars in funding to the state budget for...Read More
SACRAMENTO (August 3, 2021) - Tonight the State Water Resources Control Board adopted emergency regulations that will authorize water diversion curtailment orders for the Bay-Delta watershed—reaching from near to the Oregon border to Mendota and Fresno area along the San Joaquin River.Read More
For Immediate Release: July 28, 2021Contact: Mariah Looney, (209) 851-0270, mariah@restorethedelta.org STOCKTON, CA – As reported by California State Water Resources Control Board staff, as of 7/27/21, there are more than two dozen outbreaks of harmful algal blooms (HABs) presently in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Most of these reported levels of cyanobacteria range between “cautionary” to “dangerous.” The...Read More
Please contact Senator Padilla’s Office today regarding Senator Manchin’s draft water section in the infrastructure bill. While there are necessary items in the infrastructure bill, Senator Dianne Feinstein (who does not serve on the Energy and Water Committee) drafted this water section for Senator Manchin and loaded it up with big dam projects that will not help...Read More
