Reporter for @TB_Times covering the environment. @UFJSchool grad š@WUSF @WUFT @TheAlligator @GainesvilleSun he/him | [email protected]
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Low-income communities are often the first to bear the brunt of rising seas and warming oceans. It took months of reporting and building up trust with Twin City's residents to share my latest story for @TB_Times
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This @TB_Times Spotlight event is going to be pretty cool. Hope you'll join us, you can meet the Times Environment Hub before the event, we'll have a table. Come meet @MaxChesnes @mahoneysthename and @jack_prator, who will moderate the panel.
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We joined scientists on a research expedition last week 100 miles offshore Florida to study the largest fish in the sea
Itās rare enough to document one whale shark feeding in the Gulf. On Tuesday, they found 14
Read our story @TB_Times:
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In 2023, the EPA told Temple Terrace about an invisible threat to residents' health.
A @TB_Times investigation details how regulatory gaps allowed a toxic plant to operate for years without pollution controls, as well as the company's failures over the following years.
For years, a company used a gas known to cause cancer to clean medical tools at a plant in Tampa Bay
But the business and regulators who oversaw it didnāt curb emissions for years
Now, people who lived close to the site have cancer, and they're suing:
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āBecause you make more money off the apartments? Because weāre poor and you donāt give a sh-t about your people?ā one former resident of the park said of the plans to develop now that most residents have been removed. āThatās not right.ā
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Super excited to join @tbwaterkeeper @OurOcean @TBEP1991 and others to talk Tampa Bay water quality. Come swing by Green Bench Brewery in St. Pete Wednesday at 6 p.m. @tampabaytimes
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NEW, as part of a series called POWER STRUGGLE ā”ļø
Around Tampa Bay + beyond, residents were stunned by their electric bills this year, particularly during the summer.
Hereās why they were so high. w/ @Michaela_Mull @jack_prator @MaxChesnes @TB_Times
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NEW: Floridians and politicians were confused and outraged about a deal for the state to pay $83M for 4 acres of land in Destin.
New records show a lobbyist for the landowner wrote the proposal that led to the purchase.
w/ @MaxChesnes, h/t @Jason_Garcia
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Hillsborough chief deputy resigned amid academic cheating probe @TB_Times tampabay.com/news/hillsborouā¦
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What happens when hurricanes batter the organizations that help others? @jack_prator and @DirkShadd show us how local nonprofits fought through last year's devastating hurricanes to keep their operations going.
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"Then a jagged rostrum breached from below the murky water." What a tale from @jack_prator @Michaela_Mull @cliftimestweet and Jeff Woo about the extraordinary effort by @CoastalElasmos with assists from @myfwc @NOAAFisheries to save an endangered sawfish
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There were a lot of moving parts on this story today, but we pulled it all together. Proud of this comprehensive follow-up w/ @jack_prator @Michaela_Mull @alexacoultoff @TMarreroTimes @EmilyWunderlich @DirkShadd of @TB_Times
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Happy #EarthDay2025 everyone.
Allow me to piggyback on todayās festivities to notify you of an important venture undertaken by the @TB_Times.
This spring weāve created the Environment Hub, a concentration of our environmental reporting into a core coverage area.
Why?
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So weāve dedicated a primary team of four reporters and an editor to the Environment Hub: @MaxChesnes; @mahoneysthename; @jack_prator; @Michaela_Mull and @christisch1.
Meet them here: tampabay.com/connect-with-usā¦
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Was this Clearwater police detective tipping off drug dealers running a multi-million dollar trafficking operation? Or just trying to build "rapport" with informants? Via @jack_prator
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From parks to hurricanes and more, thereās no shortage of Florida environmental news lately
Consider supporting our newly formed @TB_Times environment hub š
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BREAKING: Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg has called St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch to inform him the Rays will not meet the March 31 deadline to move forward with a stadium deal.
This is a developing story. We'll keep updating.
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NEW: When the @TB_Times revealed the state was pursing golf, hotels, pickleball + more on 9 state parks, Florida was stunned.
How could officials make plans threatening beloved wild spaces in secret?
This is the story of how it happened. w/ @MaxChesnes: tampabay.com/news/environmenā¦
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As Hurricane Helene relief rolled out, I embedded with the wide-eyed volunteers trying to help. I hopped on their helicopters, bush planes, ATVs and (almost) their horses.
Here's what we saw. Here's what I learned:
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āWeāve never seen anything of this magnitude before, weāve never seen this influx of people from out of the area that are clearly just here to steal and to pilfer and to do bad things and to target these vulnerable people,ā the sheriff said.
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After a crane plunged hundreds of feet and hit an office building during Hurricane Milton, many in Tampa Bay are asking: How could this happen?
No one except the contractor appears to be investigating. tampabay.com/hurricane/2024/ā¦ @BetsBarnes @Colleen_Wright @rwoolington @DirkShadd
