Contact:Brian Smith brian@bpspr.comSACRAMENTO – Today, a coalition of California Tribes and Delta-based environmental justice organizations (standing in front of the HQ of the California State Water Resources Control Board) announced the filing of a “Petition for Rulemaking Review.”The coalition, represented by the Environmental Law Clinic of Stanford Law, took this formal action today to demand...Read More

California summer: Why drought makes us scared, edgy, angry – Mercury News 5/9/22The American Psychological Association describes climate anxiety, or eco-anxiety, as fear of environmental doom. In the Bay Area, it has become easy to believe in doomsday scenarios on days when wildfire smoke chokes the air with particulate matter and turns the sky an apocalyptic...Read More

Restore the Delta wants to share with our supporters this recent communication with the Department of Water Resources about the voluntary agreements. Date: 5/5/22Dear Director Nemeth, Thank you for your email regarding the upcoming voluntary agreement governance meetings. At this time, Restore the Delta is respectfully declining your invitation. I would like to share a few...Read More

How America’s Farmers Got Cut Out of the Supply Chain  – New York Times 4/20/22 “My warehouses are already bulging at the seams,” Mr. Phippen says. “It scares the crap out of me, because in five months I’m going to get a new crop in the door. There’s no timeout in farming.”…Throughout California, more than 1.1...Read More

Restore the Delta staff and interns have begun public work again, in-person following the pandemic, with a bright and hopeful focus on problem solving and community building activities.Meanwhile, a new, and deeply problematic, Temporary Urgency Change Petition has been conditionally approved to suspend Delta water quality standards the next 90 days. In addition, the Department...Read More

For Immediate Release:  March 29, 2022Contact:Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org STOCKTON, Calif. – Today, Governor Newsom announced that Sacramento Valley parties—from the American River watershed all the way up the Valley— have signed a 34-page memorandum of understanding for a Board update of the Phase II of the water quality control plan.  Whatever the “voluntary agreements” consist of, the Water Board is expected to consider the...Read More

For Immediate Release: 3/11/22 Contact: Matt Holmes, Little Manila Rising, 415-254-3546, matt@littlemanila.org Gary Mulcahy, Winnemem Wintu Tribe, 916-214-8493, gary@ranchriver.com Malissa Tayaba, Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians,916-468-2730, matayaba@ssband.org Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org SACRAMENTO, Calif. – On Thursday 3/10/22, a coalition of California Indian Tribes and Delta community groups (represented by the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic) filed an amicus...Read More

UPDATE: This is a big deal with new information. We hope everyone speaks up this week.Thanks to everyone who has already taken action. State Senators Melissa Hurtado and Dave Cortese are not exactly friends of the Delta. Their audacious new bill SB1219 is a complete assault on the Delta and all the work that Restore the Delta has...Read More

For Immediate Release: 3/8/22Contact:Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.orgSTOCKTON, Calif. – Restore the Delta and local coalition partners Little Manila Rising, Greenlining the Hood, Third City Coalition, and With Our Words have been awarded a 2022 Mosaic grant.  The funds will help this coalition of Stockton-based organizations develop The People’s Water Plan. Combining communications, leadership development, advocacy, training, data...Read More

Dry start to 2022 intensifies drought in US West – CNS 2/17/22A high pressure ridge near the West Coast has largely diverted precipitation away from California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington state and Idaho over the past six weeks, according to the agency. As a result, reservoir levels are already extremely low in southern Oregon, and in California...Read More