FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 19, 2025 Contact: Alexandra Nagy, alexandra@sunstonestrategies.org Report ignores levee upgrades, repeats debunked claims to promote $100 billion Delta Conveyance Project Sacramento, CA — Today, Restore the Delta and allies denounced the California Department of Water Resources’ (DWR) newly released State Water Project Adaptation Strategy, calling it a performative effort to justify...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 15, 2025 Contact: Alexandra Nagy, alexandra@sunstonestrategies.org Leela Yadav, leela@sunstonestrategies.org Newsom’s fast-tracking of legislation will override due process on the controversial Delta Conveyance Project Stockton, Calif. — Today, Restore the Delta held a virtual press conference alongside Tribes and environmental advocates to address the planned reintroduction of the controversial Delta Tunnel trailer...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 11, 2025 Contact: Alexandra Nagy, alexandra@sunstonestrategies.org SACRAMENTO, CA – The Delta Tribal Environmental Coalition (DTEC), consisting of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Winnemem Wintu Tribe, Little Manila Rising, and Restore the Delta, has urged the State Water Resources Control Board to grant a 90-day extension of the public comment period...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 6, 2025 Contact: Alexandra Nagy, alexandra@sunstonestrategies.org SACRAMENTO, CA – Today, advocates for Delta communities, tribes, and environmental justice denounced the Newsom Administration’s so-called “Delta Conveyance Accountability Action Plan” as a hollow attempt to appease critics while continuing to push forward a deeply flawed and harmful project. Releasing an “Accountability Plan” at...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 25, 2025 Contact: Alexandra Nagy, alexandra@sunstonestrategies.org Tribes and environmental advocates raise alarm over exclusionary “voluntary agreements” and ecological impacts Sacramento, Calif. — The California State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) released its long-awaited proposed updates to the San Francisco Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan (“Bay-Delta Plan”), a critical policy governing water quality...Read More
For Immediate Release: Friday, April 3, 2015 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta New Analysis Finds Harm in Gov. Brown’s Drought Order: Suspends CEQA, Abandons Public Rulemaking Drought Barriers for up to 10 Years, Decimate Fisheries, But No Restrictions on Mega-Farms Stockton, CA – Restore the Delta (RTD),...Read More
Articles • Temporary urgency, permanent extinction? • While Westlands Drives the Regulatory Process… • Would Delta Barriers Really be a Last Resort? • Curtailing water use during drought? Temporary urgency, permanent extinction? By: Tim Stroshane and Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla Releasing his latest Delta water quality order late on March 5th, Tom Howard, executive director of the...Read More
“We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much integrity as possible, but rather to confront and take down those systems.” — Derrick Jensen Articles • Navigate or Confront • How drought management plays out in the Delta...Read More
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” – Milan Kundera Taking advantage of a crisis Most people except some overwrought San Joaquin Valley congressmen and the Speaker of the US House of Representatives realize by now that there’s no water for farming right now because THERE’S NO WATER. Even...Read More
CONTACTS: Bob Wright, Senior Counsel, Friends of the River BWright@friendsoftheriver.org 916- 442-3155 X207 Osha Meserve, Local Agencies of the North Delta osha@semlawyers.com 916-455-7300 Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta barbara@restorethedelta.org 209-479-2053 Nick Di Croce, Environmental Water Caucus troutnk@aol.com 805-350-8898 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 STATE AND FEDERAL AGENCIES SUPPRESS PUBLIC COMMENT ON PERIPHERAL TUNNELS:...Read More
