FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 2025 Contact:Stephanie Safdi, stephanie.safdi@YLSClinics.org Sacramento, CA – A coalition of water advocates, Tribes, environmental justice organizations, and fishing organizations submitted a motion calling on the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) to cancel the Department of Water Resources’ (DWR) Change Petition for the Delta Conveyance Project (DCP). The demand comes after DWR...Read More
In a stunning and compelling New York Times opinion piece, photojournalist Ryan Christopher Jones captures the California Delta’s breathtaking beauty and the high-stakes political fights that threaten it. Blending evocative storytelling with striking imagery, Jones takes readers on a journey through this unique, marshy estuary — home to vibrant wildlife, working marinas, and a water system...Read More
Trump’s PR Stunt Disguised as Water Policy “I am done. I am not going to help them destroy stuff.” – Jacob Malcom, former Interior Department official. Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) just pulled off a classic bait-and-switch in California, taking credit for water deliveries that were already scheduled to resume. FOIA records reveal the real...Read More
The Delta Tunnel would be the largest transfer of public wealth in California for the last forty years. Officially known as the Delta Conveyance Project, the DeltaTunnel has been called a “climate adaptation project” which is simply not true. It has more accurately been referred to as a zombie project because it has been proposed in various forms over the...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 10, 2025 MEDIA CONTACT: Alexandra Nagy, alexandra@sunstonestrategies.org, 818-633-0865 Statement from Restore the Delta on Newsom Administration’s Water Policy Director of the California Department of Water Resources will work with Trump to weaken environmental protections for the Delta Stockton, CA – Governor Newsom’s top water official, Karla Nemeth, has made it clear...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 19, 2025 MEDIA CONTACT: Alexandra Nagy, alexandra@sunstonestrategies.org, 818-633-0865 Sacramento, Calif. – Environmental and Tribal groups are criticizing misleading claims byGovernor Gavin Newsom in his recent letter to the State Water Resources Control Board(SWRCB) in support of the Delta Conveyance Project (DCP). The Delta Tribal EnvironmentalCoalition (DTEC) says that the DCP...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 18, 2025 MEDIA CONTACT: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Barbara@RestoretheDelta.org Stockton, CA – Restore the Delta joined over 100 organizations in sending an urgent letter to Governor Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Rob Bonta, Speaker of the Assembly Robert Rivas and Senate President Pro Tempore Mike McGuire to ensure protecting California’s environment remains top priority. In the letter written by Defenders of...Read More
Statement from Restore the Delta FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 17, 2025 MEDIA CONTACT: Alexandra Nagy, alexandra@sunstonestrategies.org, 818-633-0865 Statement from Restore the Delta Sacramento, Calif. — Today, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the Delta ConveyanceProject (DCP) has received a required Incidental Take Permit to advance the boondoggleproject. Built on flawed voluntary agreements, the DCP seeks to...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 6, 2025 MEDIA CONTACTS: Barry Nelson, Golden State Salmon Association, barry@westernwaterstrategies.com, 510-340-1685 Gary Bobker, Friends of the River, gbobker@friendsoftheriver.org, 415-272-6616 Dr. Jon Rosenfield, San Francisco Baykeeper, jon@baykeeper.org, 510-684-4757 Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, barbara@restorethedelta.org, 209-479-2053 If you are writing about Governor Newsom’s February 5, 2025 meeting with President Trump about fire ...Read More
See the full article below carried in yesterday’s Politico California Climate Newsletter, written by Camille Von Kaenel. Thanks to Camille for the permission to re-print and to Jon at SF Baykeeper for being so right in this piece. Newsom and Trump both want to be water king By CAMILLE VON KAENEL 02/05/2025 09:00 PM EST THE ART...Read More
