Protections
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Over 100 organizations join together to urge California state leaders to maintain and defend environmental protections
Highlight risks to water quality, wildlife and the fishing industry from potential changes to state protections
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Responding to Trump's Memorandum to Undermine Delta Protections
By reviving discredited policies from his first administration, the President is once again choosing to ignore science and attack California’s communities and ecosystems for political gain.
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Small Outdoors Businesses Protections
The Outdoor Recreation Roundtable and its members are working tirelessly to support the outdoor industry’s small businesses
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Gov. Newsom Plans Veto to Block Trump Rollback of Endangered Fish Species Protections
It would be a shame for the governor to cap off his first legislative session by vetoing a bill as important to California and Californians as SB1.
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SB 1 with protections for Delta species.
As our followers know, Restore the Delta has been busy supporting SB 1 with protections for Delta species. And we continue to support these goals and the full bill as it was initially written.
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California's Entanglement Settlement Fish and Wildlife Protections
Californians will be pleased to know that Dungeness crab will be caught off the coast with greater care for endangered wildlife under a settlement announced by the Center for Biological Diversity, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (PCFFA).
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Senate Defeats Bill that Would Weaken Protections Against Aquatic Invasive Species
Today, the U.S. Senate defeated S.1129, the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2017, based on its inclusion of a provision – the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (VIDA) - which would have weakened Clean Water Act protections against aquatic invasive species entering the Great Lakes though the ballast water of ships. The Senate defeated a motion to limit debate on the bill 56-42, needing 60 votes to proceed.
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From Bay Journal: Bay Council Approves Stream, Land Protections on Chesapeake
Leaders of the state-federal Bay Program partnership pledged new efforts Thursday to protect streams draining the Chesapeake watershed even as they acknowledged that their key pollution reduction efforts have fallen behind schedule.