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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For the next year, divers will be below the crystal-clear surface of the Weeki Wachee River, vacuuming up sediment that is threatening to make the waterway impassable.
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Despite its odd name, environmental advocates say the southern hognose snake should get full protection.
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The bill would make it prohibitively expensive for most citizens to fight changes to a county's comprehensive growth plans.
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State wildlife officials backed off a plan to limit mooring of boats at specific areas along the popular Weeki Wachee River.
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More than 2,000 of the gentle sea cows have died in Florida in the last two years, mainly from algae blooms that smothers the sea grasses they need to survive.
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Free speech advocates say new rules limiting demonstrations at the state capitol threaten the First Amendment rights of Floridians.
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The wildlife corridor would preserve land stretching from the Everglades to Georgia and Alabama, allowing wildlife to freely migrate.
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The digging of a deep well at the troubled Piney Point phosphate plant in Manatee County has been completed. Now, workers are injecting 1 million gallons of polluted water deep underground, every day.
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Environmental groups say he U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has previously agreed to added protections for the species, but has since backtracked.
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The lawsuit alleges the lease sale would jeopardize the survival of endangered marine life and prolong the nation's dependence on fossil fuels.
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Free speech could be at risk if a new bill in Tallahassee becomes law, says the executive director of the First Amendment Foundation.
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The mining industry has been searching for ways to reduce the size of gypstacks, such as the one at Piney Point that leaked into Tampa Bay in 2021.