🌊 Applications for our 2026 Climate Water Advocate Interns are now open! If you're an undergraduate/graduate student interested in gaining hands-on experience in water-quality monitoring and it's roll throughout the Bay-Delta, submit your application by March 21st! 🔗 Click to apply: bit.ly/4qMlDDy

This, folks! Please help stop Newsom’s water grab!

Save SF’s Climate Plan: Rally Wed. 2/25, noon, City Hall eastern steps! Cuts to the SF Environment Dept mean ending our Climate Equity Hub and losing jobs essential for implementing our Climate Plan. The Mayor needs to know we care! RSVP: bit.ly/climateactio...

🌊 Applications for our 2026 Climate Water Advocate Interns are now open! If you're an undergraduate/graduate student interested in gaining hands-on experience in water-quality monitoring and it's roll throughout the Bay-Delta, submit your application by March 21st! 🔗 Click to apply: bit.ly/4qMlDDy

From Sandhill Cranes to Clarksburg pears, what is there not to love about the Delta? Tag that special someone or spread the love by sending them your favorite card! 💖 #valentinesday #sandhillcrane #deltasmelt #goldenmussel

🚨 Urgent Action Alert: Speak out against the Delta Tunnel! Join us with San Francisco Baykeeper on February 19 for our public comment training. Learn how to participate in the upcoming DSC meeting and how you can speak out against the Delta Tunnel! 🔗Click to RSVP: bit.ly/4cnPXR2

We’re still reminiscing the Benito Bow- we mean, Super Bowl Sunday. Who knew these three artists have as much love for each other as we do for the Delta? 😊🩵 #badbunny #superbowl #baydelta #ladygaga #rickymartin

🚨 Urgent Action Alert: Speak out against the Delta Tunnel! Join us with San Francisco Baykeeper on February 19 for our public comment training. Learn how to participate in the upcoming DSC meeting and how you can speak out against the Delta Tunnel! 🔗Click to RSVP: bit.ly/4cnPXR2

☀ Restore the Delta is wishing you a happy Monday! After a long and eventful weekend, we're taking a moment to appreciate the Delta. Take a look at these images from the Port of Stockton near the historic Lindley House! #baydelta #nature

As February unfolds, we proudly recognize Black History Month, a time to honor the countless contributions and powerful voices of Black leaders throughout history. Black history is American history, and Black history is incredibly important to the Bay-Delta's history.

#ICYMI: Fighting a Bay-Delta Plan that fails to protect the communities it is meant to protect Recent coverage on the Bay-Delta plan hearings last week in the Sac Bee and SF Chronicle continues to highlight us and our partners’ opposition to the Voluntary Agreements. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4tllt8w

#SaveOurWetlands🌿🦆🐟🦀🦎🦫🦇 #SaveOurBogs 🌿🐸🐍🐌🪱🦠 #Boycott4Wildlife #PeatfreeGardening 🌱🪴 #SaveCarbonSink #SaveOurPeatland #SaveOurWaterways 🦆🦎🐟💧🚰 #StopPollution 💩 #KeepItInTheGround ⚒️🪏 #ExctinctionIsForever 🦖🦕🦤...🧑‍🍼?? #BiodiversityCrisis 🪱🦠🐸🦎🌿 #ClimateActionNOW 🚨 #WorldWetlandsDay #DavidAttenborough💔

Today, Restore the Delta celebrates #WorldWetlandsDay! 🌿💧 Did you know that before European colonization, nearly 95% of the Delta was made up of tidal freshwater wetlands & stewarded by Indigenous Tribes for generations?

💧 News Roundup: Heated debate over California water plan as environmentalists warn of ‘ecosystem collapse’ Our coalition of enviro groups, Tribes, and fishing advocates continues opposing the plan, calling for strong protections for the Delta ecosystem and communities. 🔗 Read: bit.ly/4t7HMyt

⭐️ Thank you so much to everyone who was able to attend the Mormon Slough Restoration Association Community Meeting today! Alongside Little Manila Rising and Greenlining the Hood, we were able to connect with community and hear their thoughts. Stay tuned for more updates! 🌿

This year, Restore the Delta is raising salmon eggs right in our office! 🐟 Follow along to learn more about this keystone species in the Delta and to see when they return home to the river! 💙🌊

Gubernatorial candidates weigh in on the Delta Tunnel Yesterday, CA Environmental Voters hosted the climate-focused candidate forum, & participating candidates were asked if they support the Delta Tunnel. All candidates either don't support or share concerns w/ the project. 🔗 Read: bit.ly/3Od1BEj

🚨 Ahead of Bay-Delta Hearings this week, Tribes and Environmental Groups Call for Equitable Alternatives Today, Environmental advocates and Tribal leaders spoke out against the inequitable and misleading Voluntary Agreements within the latest Bay-Delta Plan update 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4tbd2N5

🌿 Calling all Stockton residents! Join us at our upcoming Mormon Slough Restoration Association Community Meeting! Discuss the future of Mormon Slough on Saturday, Jan 31st. Share your vision & help shape climate solutions in Stockton, CA. 🔗 Click to RSVP: bit.ly/3Z8Xonk

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🚨 THIS WEEK: Use your voice and Oppose the Bay-Delta Plan! Restore the Delta, alongside Tribes, environmental advocates, and environmental justice organizations, are asking you to speak out against harmful updates to the Bay-Delta Plan! 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4riIEi4 #baydelta #california #salmon

That’s a Wrap: The Heart of California is ready for a renaissance... Details coming soon. 🌊

Stockton, CA is in need of more green space and recreational opportunities as well as a solution to the looming threat of aging flood infrastructure along the San Joaquin River. Now, the city has the prime opportunity to solve both problems – Learn more: www.americanrivers.org/2025/12/brin...

Such an honor to be working alongside @americanrivers.bsky.social on restoration projects like this one in Stockton, CA! Click to read more about this transformative work! 👇

🌿 Community input needed! RSVP for the Mormon Slough Restoration Association Community Meeting! Join us to discuss the future of Mormon Slough and more on Saturday, Jan 31st. Learn, share your vision, and help shape climate solutions in Stockton, CA. 🔗 Click to RSVP: bit.ly/3Z8Xonk #Stocktonca

🚨 URGENT ACTION ALERT 🚨 We invite you to join us in speaking out for the Bay-Delta in person or virtually on January 28, 29, or 30. Recent updates to the Bay-Delta Plan will have devastating impacts to our Delta communities! 🔗Learn how you can help: bit.ly/3YI7TxV #California #water

If you are an environmental activist/scientist or California citizen, please help 👇

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we affirm that we support the rights for all Americans to assemble, protest, & to address grievances with the government on behalf of systemically harmed communities. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King Jr.

The California Department of Water Resources recently shared that in the last five years it has “restored thousands of acres of tidal wetlands and floodplains in the Delta, claiming these projects are already benefiting endangered fish". We say, “Sure, Jan." 🙂

⚙️ As #AI infrastructure rapidly expands, a new white paper released by Restore the Delta finds significant risks to water supplies, energy systems, ecosystems, and local communities as the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta emerges as a major hub for AI-driven #data centers. 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/3Zk70vy

🚨 Urgent Action Alert: Speak Out on the Bay-Delta Plan! Join us alongside Tribes, environmental advocates, and environmental justice organizations to continue to advocating for a strong regulatory framework surrounding the Bay-Delta! 🔗 Take action: bit.ly/3YI7TxV

🚨 #Trump Administration rolls back key protections in the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act. Taken together, they remove critical protections for vulnerable communities. These changes are a direct assault on protections and critical regulations for our air & waterways. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4szcwYJ

🌿 Join the Mormon Slough Restoration Association Community Meeting! Join us to discuss the future of Mormon Slough and Stockton’s Climate Action & Adaptation Plan. Learn, share your vision, and help shape climate solutions for our communities. 🔗 Click to RSVP: bit.ly/3Z8Xonk #Stocktonca

#ICYMI: For the first time since December 2000, not a single square mile of California is classified as dry. The @sfchronicle.com reports how winter storms and atmospheric rivers played a major role in 0% of the state experiencing drought. 🔗Read more: bit.ly/4aVFdcb

🌊 Hi everyone, Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla here. As we enter 2026, we want to say how grateful we are for our your support. The fight to protect public participation in the Bay-Delta isn’t over. Click below to learn how you can take action in 2026. 🔗 bit.ly/450UdSc

🚨 Action Alert Update: AB 497 has been withdrawn! Thanks to you, transparency and public participation in the Bay-Delta Plan were protected. We hope to continue sharing more of these victories as 2026 continues! 🎉

🚨 URGENT ACTION ALERT 🚨 📣 Call Assemblymember Lori D. Wilson today and urge her to stop efforts to undermine public participation in the update to the San Francisco Bay-San Joaquin Delta Plan! 🔗 Contact the Assemblymember today: bit.ly/4q9l4nw #baydelta #solanocounty #sacramentocounty

#ICYMI: In a major win for Delta communities, an appeals courtuled that the Department of Water Resources (DWR) lacks the legal authority to issue billions of dollars in bonds to construct the project. 🔗Read more: bit.ly/3LuulaM #SacramentoBee #DeltaTunnel

And with that, the 2025 season comes to an end… 🎉 Restore the Delta wants to give a huge thank you to all of our partners and supporters that have shown up for us time and time again. We can’t wait to see what 2026 has in store, but we hope you’ll stick around for the ride! 💙

✨ As 2025 comes to an end, we ask you to join us in supporting our work as we head into the new year. This year was an important one across all our programs, and your support was at the heart of it all! 🌊 Click to learn more and donate today: bit.ly/4jjYpCg

Here is the latest update from WPC on the California atmospheric river event where a moderate to high risk of flash flooding is anticipated for southern California on Wednesday Christmas Eve. Please stay safe through the upcoming Christmas holiday. www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/key_messages...

A strong atmospheric river will continue heavy rain over southern CA through Fri with flash and urban flooding possible. A prolonged heavy snowfall has begun over the Sierra Nevada Mountains as well, and will continue through Fri. Travel will be increasingly difficult over the passes. weather.gov

🎄 Season’s greetings from Restore the Delta! This holiday season, we want to thank our supporters, partners, and community members who continue to support our work throughout the Delta. Our team wishes you a merry and bright holiday season, and we look forward to seeing you all in the new year.

🚨 Today, the Delta Tribal Environmental Coalition (DTEC) formally requested a 60-day extension of the public comment period for the draft Bay-Delta Plan. 🔗 Read the full letter: bit.ly/48Z2mrl

🍃 California is at a pivotal moment in the fight against the climate crisis. We’re proud to share that Restore the Delta’s Carbon & Program Manager, Esther Mburu, contributed key insights to a new report from The Climate Center. 🔗 Read more:

🚨 #WeatherAlert for the Delta 🔗 Read: bit.ly/4p0TDuY The Delta is in the path of an upcoming atmospheric river, which could bring heavy rainfall and increased flood risk to our region. According to the SF Chronicle, storms are expected to impact much of Nor Cal.

#ICYMI: Trump’s plan to pump more water in California is ill-conceived and harmful, lawmakers say 🔗https://bit.ly/48VrBuz In a recent LA Times report, seven lawmakers led by @repgaramendi.bsky.social, are pushing back against the Trump admin's plan to pump more water out of the Delta.

🚨 State Water Board’s Revised Bay-Delta Water Plan Met with Swift Criticism The CA SWB released a revised Bay-Delta Plan. Tribes and environmental advocates strongly criticize it for failing to protect rivers, salmon, and Tribal communities 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4q0e6ki

🎥 Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Vice Chair Malissa Tayaba and Restore the Delta’s own Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla were recently featured in a documentary exploring the impacts on California water, agriculture, and the rise of #pistachios. 🔗 Click to watch: bit.ly/44orEhd

#ICYMI: A Sacramento Bee op-ed featuring Vance Staplin, executive director of the Golden State Salmon Assoc, and Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, urges the State Water Board to reject weak voluntary agreements and instead update the Bay-Delta plan. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4iHQBdk