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
https://t.co/U7D28TfhES
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 didn’t curb emissions for years
Now, people who lived close to the site have cancer, and they're suing:
https://t.co/z3Y5ohoQ8p
“Because you make more money off the apartments? Because we’re poor and you don’t give a sh-t about your people?” one former resident of the park said of the plans to develop now that most residents have been removed. “That’s not right.”
https://t.co/3kfnQkpsfX
NEW, as part of a series called POWER STRUGGLE ⚡️
Around Tampa Bay + beyond, residents were stunned by their electric bills this year, particularly during the summer.
Here’s why they were so high. w/ @Michaela_Mull@jack_prator@MaxChesnes@TB_Times
https://t.co/aQt5iDPenH
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
https://t.co/I5CAyTz5wO
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.
https://t.co/6jiQmjZCki
Happy #EarthDay2025 everyone.
Allow me to piggyback on today’s festivities to notify you of an important venture undertaken by the @TB_Times.
This spring we’ve created the Environment Hub, a concentration of our environmental reporting into a core coverage area.
Why?
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
https://t.co/fUC5wWnjJA
From parks to hurricanes and more, there’s no shortage of Florida environmental news lately
Consider supporting our newly formed @TB_Times environment hub 👇
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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.
https://t.co/4uEN9Dew7D
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: https://t.co/I1ixhgRXc3
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:
https://t.co/wNd65EhfZq
“We’ve never seen anything of this magnitude before, we’ve 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,” the sheriff said.
https://t.co/CjUnOrWBsQ
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. https://t.co/yjd4uz7KmM @BetsBarnes@Colleen_Wright@rwoolington@DirkShadd
Just a note that water samplers still need to confirm with data whether this is red tide — and just how strong it’s blooming
Sampling was paused because of the storm but will be picking back up today. We’re all curious what the results will show