Bellamy Pailthorp
Environment ReporterBellamy Pailthorp covers the KNKX environment beat with an emphasis on climate justice, human health and food sovereignty. Bellamy likes reporting stories about how we will power our future while maintaining healthy cultures and livable cities. Story tips can be sent to bpailthorp@knkx.org.
Fluent in German, Bellamy worked in Berlin and has a masters in journalism from Columbia University. She joined KNKX (then KPLU) in 1999. From 2000-2012, she covered the business and labor beat for KNKX. Outside work, she practices yoga, enjoys tasting new foods and is frequently on the water with her rowing team.
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The Yakima River Basin project aims to provide gentler and more adaptable fish passage as snowpack melts and the climate warms. -
Many counties and municipalities in Washington state already have climate plans. A new guide shows the steps jurisdictions can take to help reach the state’s net-zero goal. -
Ballots are due on April 28. If passed, the bond would pay for capital improvements at about 40 locations over six years without increasing taxes. -
Now independent and rebranded as The Nature Record, the assessment was first launched through an executive order signed by then-President Biden in Seattle. -
President Trump canceled an agreement to restore Columbia River Basin salmon runs. A U.S. Appeals Court is considering how to balance protecting endangered salmon with hydropower.
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The small tribe on the northwest corner of the Olympic Peninsula has asked to revise its permit application to let members resume the traditional subsistence whale hunt in July. -
State Rep. Debra Lekanoff, a Democrat from Anacortes, pushed for the legislation to wipe state statutes clean of an unenforceable voter initiative.
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This year has already been one of the state’s warmest on record. Forecasters predict heat and drought will continue. -
The Pacific Fishery Management Council voted this month to loosen regulations on eight groundfish stocks in Washington and Oregon, after doing the same for 39 stocks last year. -
Seattle City Light operates three hydropower dams on the Skagit River. The proposed agreement covers the next 50 years.
