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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It's the first of 136 fast charging stations statewide that are funded in part by revenue from Washington state's Climate Commitment Act.
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A Republican plan before the US Senate to sell millions of acres of federal public lands in the west to developers has been removed from President Trump’s big tax and spending bill.
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The idea is to sell off millions of acres of lands held by the Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service, to help alleviate the nation’s housing shortage and the federal deficit. Interested parties could nominate parcels to be auctioned off for development.
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Harmful algal blooms often shut down ocean fisheries and recreation. University of Washington researchers have discovered a way to forecast them, up to three days in advance.
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Federal officials have released a new population estimate for eastern North Pacific gray whales. It’s about 13,000 — the lowest number since the 1970s.
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Last week the Trump administration revoked California’s rules on electric vehicles and with them, those of ten other states, including Washington.
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Total revenue from last week's auction of allowances for carbon emissions came in at more than $321 million. Since the program's start, $3.2 billion has been raised for state investment in climate.
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After an official Unusual Mortality Event was declared over, scientists expected the population to rebound. Instead, they're seeing high numbers of strandings. -
Seattle, along with other cities, is struggling to balance the need for more housing with the preservation and growth of trees that help address the impacts of climate change. -
Advocates for preventing the logging say that with all the effort and millions of dollars put into dam removal and ecosystem restoration on the Elwha, cutting these mature stands doesn’t make sense.
