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
On November 20, 2025, Restore the Delta submitted comments to the Attorney General’s Office highlighting our deep concerns with the proposed October 2025 Ballot Initiative, titled “Building an Affordable California.” The October 2025 proposed Ballot Initiative seeks to undermine California’s foundational environmental law, the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”). At a time when our environment is under attack at the...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 20, 2025 Contact:Ashley Castaneda, ashley@restorethedelta.org Groups argue the project ignores state law, threatens important Tribal cultural sites and the health of the Delta ecosystem. Sacramento, CA—A coalition of Tribes and environmental advocates have filed a formal appeal challenging the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) Certification of Consistency for the proposed...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 November 7, 2025 Contact: Ashley Castaneda, ashley@restorethedelta.org Stockton, CA – Environmental advocates are calling on the Delta Stewardship Council (Council) to honor its commitments to environmental justice, fairness and transparency for public review of the Certification of Consistency for the Delta Conveyance Project (DCP). In a letter sent on November 6, San Francisco Baykeeper...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 24, 2025 Contact: Ashley Castaneda, ashley@restorethedelta.org Stockton, CA – On Tuesday, October 21, the California Chamber of Commerce filed a request for a ballot initiative misleadingly titled the “Building an Affordable California” initiative. The proposal seeks to streamline environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for so-called “essential” infrastructure projects, including major...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 14, 2025 Contact: Leela Yadav, leela.yadav@sunstonestrategies.org Administrative Hearing Officer finds DWR’s Delta Conveyance modeling incomplete; Baykeeper and Restore the Delta demand explanation for premature consistency determination Sacramento, CA — Two new developments this week expose major flaws in the Department of Water Resources’ (DWR) rush to advance the controversial Delta Conveyance...Read More
A broad coalition of Tribes, environmental justice organizations, fishing groups, conservation advocates, and Delta communities successfully halted Governor Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal that sought to bypass critical legal, environmental, and public participation processes in order to fast-track the controversial Delta Tunnel project. The proposal faced immediate and unified opposition from Tribes, Delta organizations, and local communities, who...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 11, 2025 Contact: Ashley Castaneda, ashley@restorethedelta.org, 209-936-0901 Stockton, CA – A coalition of Tribes, environmental justice organizations, fishing groups, conservation advocates, and Delta communities successfully stopped a package of Delta trailer bills that would have had disastrous consequences for the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary. The proposed trailer bills would have given...Read More
