In an insightful Sacramento Bee opinion piece, Vance Staplin, executive director of the Golden State Salmon Association, and Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of Restore the Delta, urge the State Water Resources Control Board to reject weak voluntary agreements, update the Bay-Delta plan, and adopt meaningful, science-based flow standards to restore salmon runs and protect communities. Vance...Read More
An AP News article details the Trump administration’s newly announced plan to divert more water to California’s Central Valley, following through on an earlier executive order aimed at increasing agricultural water deliveries. The Bureau of Reclamation says the updated operations plan for the massive Central Valley project will take effect Friday. California officials and environmental...Read More
ICYMI, California is stepping up to defend its environment, its communities, and its long-termwater security. New letters obtained by the Los Angeles Times reveal that the Trumpadministration is pushing a plan to weaken longstanding Delta environmental protections inorder to send more water to California farmland, rolling back safeguards that protect strugglingnative fish species and help...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 14, 2025 Contact:Fiona Baker, San Francisco Baykeeper, (510) 671-5705, fiona@baykeeper.orgGary Bobker, Friends of the River, (415) 272-6616, gbobker@friendsoftheriver.orgHarrison Beck, Center for Biological Diversity, (510) 731-6639, ext. 446, hbeck@biologicaldiversity.org Restore the Delta is sharing the following release in support of our partners at San Francisco Baykeeper, Friends of the River and the Center for Biological...Read More
For Immediate Release, September 9, 2015 Robert Wright, Friends of the River, (916) 442-3155 x 207, bwright@friendsoftheriver.org Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, (209) 479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org Jeff Miller, Center for Biological Diversity, (510) 499-9185, jmiller@biologicaldiversity.org DELTA TUNNELS Project Violates Endangered Species Act, Will Hurt Imperiled Salmon, Groups Warn SACRAMENTO, Calif.— Conservation groups warned state and federal regulators today that the Delta Water Tunnels project (the so-called...Read More
Overly Optimistic By Tim Stroshane “Relax”—Things Will be OK | It Gets Worse | But Wait, There’s More | Gentlemen’s Agreement Mismanagement of the state and federal water projects in California’s Central Valley during the state’s four-year drought was on full display at a June 24th workshop convened by the State Water Resources Control Board...Read More
Press Release 4 June 2015 For Immediate Release Document: Our complaint for declaratory & injunctive relief. Contact: Bill Jennings, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance: 209-464-5067; cell 209- 938-9053; email, deltakeep@me.com Andrew Packard, Law Offices of Andrew Packard; 707-763-7227 Mike Lozeau, Lozeau/Drury LLP: 510-836-4200 Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta; 209-479-2053 Groups Sue...Read More
“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. And then you win.” ― Ghandi Articles • Halftime Score. Delta 7. Tunnel Proponents 0. • Getting Ready for the Second Half. • Game plan Halftime Score. Delta 7. Tunnel Proponents 0. The Bay Delta Conservation Plan is dead. Long live the...Read More
Fishermen, Delta Leaders Protest Move to “Destroy Salmon” Push by Westlands, Feinstein to Overpump Delta will Destroy Fisheries; If Endangered Species are Extinct, No Need for Protections; Governor is Violating Clean Water Act Listen to audio: Sacramento, CA – Delta fishermen and community leaders held a news conference this afternoon outside a State Water Resources...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
