K.C. Mehaffey

K.C. Mehaffey writes about hydropower and its impacts on fish and the environment for NewsData's Clearing Up, the premier publication covering the energy industry in the Pacific Northwest. She came to NewsData in 2018 after working as a reporter for a daily newspaper for 20 years. Most of her coverage is focused on lawsuits, water supply, hydro operations, Columbia Basin salmon and steelhead runs, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission hydropower relicensing, along with impacts to salmon from harvest, habitat and hatcheries.