Steve Newborn
Steve Newborn is WUSF's assistant news director as well as a reporter and producer at WUSF covering environmental issues and politics in the Tampa Bay area.
He’s been with WUSF since 2001, and has covered events such as President George W. Bush’s speech in Sarasota as the Sept. 11 attacks unfolded; the ongoing drama over whether the feeding tube should be removed from Terri Schiavo; the arrest and terrorism trial of USF professor Sami Al-Arian; how the BP Deepwater Horizon spill affected Florida; and he followed the Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition through the state - twice.
Before joining WUSF, he covered environmental and Polk County news for the Tampa Tribune and worked for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center during the early days of the space shuttle.
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The Democratic state senator has launched a campaign to increase the number of Black and brown voters in Florida who use vote-by mail.
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As state officials focus on buying massive areas of undeveloped land, crowdsourcing efforts are being used across the region and state to try and preserve smaller pieces of nature.
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Said one attorney: “It is painfully clear that Florida isn’t doing what’s necessary to control the sewage and fertilizer pollution that’s wrecking the Indian River Lagoon."
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The spill from the former phosphate plant in Manatee County earlier this year was a cautionary event. But the country's largest producer of phosphate currently has plans for a new mine in southern Florida.
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State environmental regulators ruled the proposed well could impact water supplies and endangered species, such as the Florida panther.
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The oil well would be build in the heart of one of the state's biggest agricultural areas.
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A report released Friday shows that red tide continues to creep northward along Florida's Gulf Coast, clear up the Florida Panhandle to Navarre Pier, near Pensacola.
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Red tide continues to worsen along the Gulf beaches, especially off Pinellas County.
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Nikki Fried says she will seek to phase out the use of a commonly used product that is blamed for one of the worst causes of ocean pollution.
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development disproportionately sells homes in flood-prone areas, NPR finds. Housing experts warn that this can lead to big losses for vulnerable families.