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 troubled Mosaic mine is reporting a possible tear in the lining that keeps waste from polluting the environment. But officials say the effects are still unknown. -
Conservationists in Florida are trying to preserve a wildlife corridor for migrating animals that runs through Disney World. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Oct. 26, 2023.)
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Conservationists in Florida are trying to preserve a wildlife corridor for migrating animals that runs straight through Disney World.
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The world's most-visited theme park has become, almost by accident, one of the most important links in a corridor for wildlife spanning the length of Florida. It was created by the very organization that was responsible for kickstarting sprawl in Central Florida a half-century ago.
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Federal money could be used to match or augment existing state dollars used to protect environmentally sensitive land, including that of the Florida Wildlife Corridor.
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Pasco County's largest city has taken the unprecedented step of halting growth for the next year as it tries to figure out how to reduce how much water it uses.
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The 600,000 signatures garnered so far means the proposal can go before the Florida Supreme Court for review.
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Democratic organizers are trying to make Debbie Mucarsel-Powell she has a better chance at winning than they did in the last Senate race.
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One of the state's most powerful politicians is pushing to consolidate the number of circuit courts that operate in Florida.
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The lawsuit comes a dozen years after federal environmental regulators said the tortoises needed added protection to survive.
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One of the ponds atop the phosphogypsum stack at Piney Point is almost empty of water. That should prevent a repeat of the 2021 release of polluted water into nearby Tampa Bay.
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Record-breaking ocean temperatures are killing Florida's coral reefs. Water temperatures in the 90s are causing bleaching in the Florida Keys, where algae that gives coral much of its color is being expelled, leaving coral without its major source of food.
