Ahead of its March 18 hearing in the Senate Environmental Quality Committee, SB 872 is bringing together Northern and Southern California legislators, environmental groups including Restore the Delta, and water interests to protect the state’s primary water source. The bill addresses two major threats to California’s water supply: aging levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and sinking canals in...Read More
Amid mounting signs of ecosystem disruption and ongoing damage to the vulnerable Bay-Delta Estuary, local advocates, Tribal leaders, and policymakers are calling for stronger water quality protections and renewed scrutiny of the Delta Tunnel proposal. Representative Josh Harder has formally urged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to deny the federal permits required to advance the...Read More
State Senator Jerry McNerney announced today the introduction of SB 872, legislation that would direct $300 million annually from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) toward critical levee repairs in the Delta and other subsidence repairs along State Water Project canals. Many of the Delta’s essential levees date back to the 1800s and no longer meet the U.S. Army...Read More
A group of House members, all representing districts served by powerful water agencies, has urged the Newsom administration to roll back a key environmental rule governing operations in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The rule includes critical limits intended to protect the ecological health of the state’s largest and most fragile estuary. Both the Newsom...Read More
Coverage on the Bay-Delta plan hearings last week continues to highlight Restore the Delta and our partners’ opposition to the Voluntary Agreements, including coverage from the San Francisco Chronicle and the Sacramento Bee. The article published by the San Francisco Chronicle details the widespread criticism California’s updated Bay-Delta Plan faced during recent public hearings. At packed sessions, hundreds of members...Read More
As you’ve seen in our Action Alerts, the updated Bay-Delta Plan is under debate during hearings convened by the State Water Resources Control Board. The proposal has drawn strong opposition from Tribes, environmental justice organizations, and commercial and recreational fishing groups. As the Los Angeles Times reports, years of research shows California’s fish populations are at serious risk due...Read More
In case you missed it, as we inch closer and closer to the November election for the next governor, Restore the Delta is following what candidates may think about important issues that will directly affect Delta communities, like the Delta Tunnel. At last night’s climate-focused candidate forum hosted by California Environmental Voters, the participating candidates were...Read More
In case you missed it, for the first time since December 2000, not a single square mile of California is classified as dry. After an exceptionally wet holiday season fueled by powerful winter storms and atmospheric rivers, the latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows 0% of the state experiencing drought or abnormal dryness, a remarkable milestone for...Read More
Dear Friends, Call Assemblymember Wilson today to stop her efforts to undermine public participation in the update to the San Francisco Bay-San Joaquin Delta Plan (“Bay-Delta Plan”)! AB 497, amended today by Asm. Lori D. Wilson, supported by Solano County Water Agency, seeks to limit the State Water Resources Control Board (“Water Board”) review and consideration of comments about the most recent update to the...Read More
In a major win for our coalition of Delta-area groups and communities pushing back against the Delta tunnel project, a California appellate court ruled that the Department of Water Resources (DWR) lacks the legal authority to issue billions of dollars in bonds to construct the project. This decision strikes down DWR’s hopes of financing the...Read More
