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 statewide Environmental Priorities Coalition is highlighting a package of new policies to protect communities from environmental harm and electricity rate hikes.
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The report, cheekily named “Build SHIIT Now,” says more than 250 projects, 580,000 jobs, and 24 gigawatts are at risk in Washington state due to bureaucratic delays. -
Thicker bags have proliferated in the wake of the statewide ban on thin plastic bags that took effect in 2021. Now, some cities are asking lawmakers to close a loophole. -
The error means that spending under Washington’s flagship carbon policy is far less effective than previously thought, according to state officials. -
The Trump administration announced in December that it intends to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. -
Washington state and federal wildlife officials, tribes and a nonprofit are using new tools in an intensive research project to investigate how harbor seals impact endangered salmon. -
Pierce County’s Silvaseed, in Roy, Washington, collects, cleans, sorts and stores seed — and grows seedlings — to help restore forests hard-hit by increasingly intense wildfires. -
University of Washington oceanographers decoded data from two sets of native coral samples collected more than a century apart, and found acidification there was accelerating. -
The heat dome of 2021 scorched an area of tree canopy in Washington and Oregon the size of Rhode Island, according to a recent study from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University.
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Outlining his priorities, Zahilay spoke of breaking the cycle of addiction and homelessness, building more affordable housing and improving government. He said that will mean getting out in the community more with “boots on the ground.”
