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7 Mar 2024
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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Apr 30
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.
Apr 30
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:
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Jack Prator retweeted
18 Dec 2025
“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.”
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17 Nov 2025
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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13 Nov 2025
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
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29 Oct 2025
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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29 Aug 2025
Hillsborough chief deputy resigned amid academic cheating probe @TB_Times tampabay.com/news/hillsborou…
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19 Aug 2025
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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13 Aug 2025
"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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Jack Prator retweeted
29 Jul 2025
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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Jack Prator retweeted
22 Apr 2025
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?
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Jack Prator retweeted
22 Apr 2025
So we’ve 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-us…
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22 Apr 2025
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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Jack Prator retweeted
16 Apr 2025
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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13 Mar 2025
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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Jack Prator retweeted
20 Dec 2024
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/environmen…
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Jack Prator retweeted
28 Oct 2024
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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Jack Prator retweeted
25 Oct 2024
“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.
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Jack Prator retweeted
21 Oct 2024
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/… @BetsBarnes @Colleen_Wright @rwoolington @DirkShadd
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Jack Prator retweeted
17 Oct 2024
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
16 Oct 2024
Ughhh just what we needed. Red tide is back and it's a bad bloom. These outbreaks are common after hurricanes (this time 2 #Helene & #Milton) because they upwell nutrients from the deeper/ cooler Gulf bottom feeding algae blooms. Related article on Irma features.miami.edu/2018/are-…
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9 Oct 2024
For my Brandon/Riverview friends, looks like the Alafia is expected to reach record flood levels. #HurricaneMilton #Alafia
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