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 "Big, Beautiful Bill" ends tax incentives that help pay for solar panel installations. The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy says thousands of jobs could be at stake. -
The $200 million had been swept from the corridor acquisition money by state lawmakers before a line-item veto reversed that move. -
But more money has been allocated in this year's state budget for a program that pays farmers and ranchers in the Florida Wildlife Corridor not to develop their land. -
A new study shows warmer, lighter fresh water flowing into the Gulf in the path of Idalia may have helped intensify it from a Category 1 to a Category 4 storm in one day. -
After cuts in staff at the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge, the world's largest manatee sanctuary, reports have surfaced of manatees being harassed. -
Disney World's conservation arm has given $1 million to the foundation that wants to preserve a wildlife corridor through the length of Florida. -
The Rice's whale is considered the most endangered whale in the world, with around 50 estimated to exist in the Gulf. -
Finding more heat-resistant coral species could be the key to staving off their extinction as ocean temperatures are expected to continue rising. -
The proposed rule would keep the Florida manatee as threatened, continuing its status since being delisted as endangered in 2017. A public hearing is set for Feb. 26. -
State Attorney Suzy Lopez was sworn into office Tuesday. It caps a saga that began when the governor suspended her predecessor, Andrew Warren.
