Max Chesnes

@MaxChesnes

Environment reporter @TB_Times. Past: @tcpenvironment💧 Fmr. @ColumbiaUEnergy Fellow. @UFJSchool alum. Drone pilot. #ReadLocal

St Petersburg, FL

Joined March 2013

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Max Chesnes@MaxChesnes · Dec 20

NEW: Earlier this year, southeast Florida’s largest state park had an unusual visitor: famed golfer Jack Nicklaus. He wasn’t visiting for leisure. He was there to see if he could build golf courses. He left the park convinced it could be done 1/ tampabay.com/news/environme…

MaxChesnes's tweet card. Here’s how one of the state’s biggest controversies of the year came together — and quickly fell apart.

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Max Chesnes@MaxChesnes · Jun 9

Poaching, sweeping habitat loss and dwindling wetlands have plummeted the population of one of Florida’s most beloved flowers Now @USFWS proposes bolstering ghost orchid protections by adding it to the endangered species list tampabay.com/news/environme…

MaxChesnes's tweet card. Federal wildlife officials estimate there are fewer than 1,000 ghost orchids remaining in the United States.

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Max Chesnes@MaxChesnes · Jul 21

Sad news today: a pioneering Florida manatee researcher, James “Buddy” Powell, died over the weekend When ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau wanted to see manatees decades ago, he called on Powell — then a high school kid from Crystal River — to help him tampabay.com/news/environme…

MaxChesnes's tweet card. Powell studied manatees around the world, and is remembered by longtime colleagues as a calm and curious scientist.

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Max Chesnes@MaxChesnes · Jul 19

In just four hours of marine debris cleanup in Tampa Bay: •50+ abandoned crab traps •Thousands of pounds of plastic •Hundreds of feet of ropes and fishing line

MaxChesnes's tweet image. In just four hours of marine debris cleanup in Tampa Bay:

•50+ abandoned crab traps
•Thousands of pounds of plastic
•Hundreds of feet of ropes and fishing line

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Matthew Cappucci@MatthewCappucci · Jul 15

NEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) writes he “can’t help but notice the possibility that weather modification could have played a role” in the Texas floods. One of Florida’s highest-ranking officials is implementing policy based on beliefs not…

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Jason Garcia@Jason_Garcia · Jul 1

One reason Florida leaders rushed to get their Everglades immigrant prison built so quickly was to make sure a court couldn't stop them. This is from a new legal brief attorneys for the state just filed in a lawsuit brought by environmental groups trying to shut the site down:

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Emily L. Mahoney@mahoneysthename · Jul 1

NEW: As the clean energy debate rages on in Washington over the "big beautiful bill," Florida's solar industry is in a panic. The bill's new tax for solar projects will cost jobs and possibly close FL factories, they said. tampabay.com/news/environme…

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Max Chesnes@MaxChesnes · Jun 23

82-year-old Clyde Butcher, world-renowned photographer who last year earned a presidential medal for his life’s work documenting the Florida Everglades, joined protests yesterday against @AGJamesUthmeier’s proposed “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center

MaxChesnes's tweet image. 82-year-old Clyde Butcher, world-renowned photographer who last year earned a presidential medal for his life’s work documenting the Florida Everglades, joined protests yesterday against @AGJamesUthmeier’s proposed “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center

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Max Chesnes@MaxChesnes · Jun 20

Records show both the American Petroleum Institute and Chevron lobbied on the bill.

MMax Chesnes@MaxChesnes · Jun 20

The fate of a future oil drilling ban along Florida’s treasured Apalachicola River comes down to Gov. Desantis The drill ban bill hit his desk this week, starting the clock. Read more @TB_Times: tampabay.com/news/environme…

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Max Chesnes@MaxChesnes · Jun 20

MaxChesnes's tweet card. Anglers and oyster farmers say oil drilling near the river would threaten their livelihoods — and their way of life.

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Max Chesnes@MaxChesnes · Jun 18

Worth noting: Zalupski was rumored to be behind the controversial proposal recently to trade away 600 acres of St. Johns County preserved wilderness We’ve asked his company lawyer multiple times if Zalupski was involved in his personal capacity and have never received a response

KKurt Badenhausen@kbadenhausen · Jun 18

SCOOP: The Tampa Bay Rays are in advanced talks to sell the club to a group led by Jacksonville home builder Patrick Zalupski. Parties have signed a letter of intent, and the price is roughly $1.7B. Details at @Sportico from @soshnick and me. wp.me/pc2RuA-1lzkHv

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Emily L. Mahoney@mahoneysthename · Jun 10

~1 yr after the @TB_Times revealed a deal to trade 324 acres of preserved forest to a luxury golf resort, top Florida officials approved buying 100s of acres of forest from the same resort for conservation. On the course reversal, w/ @MaxChesnes: tampabay.com/news/environme…

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Emily L. Mahoney@mahoneysthename · Jun 4

The power of public backlash: Last summer, golf resort Cabot Citrus was poised to get 324 acres of state forest, to much criticism. A year later, it could now strike a deal with the state to sell 340 acres and EXPAND the state forest. w/ @MaxChesnes tampabay.com/news/environme…

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Max Chesnes@MaxChesnes · Jun 4

NEW w/@mahoneysthename: The golf course developer that wanted more than 300 acres of Florida state forest — a move the Cabinet granted early approval — is poised to do a 180 after backlash The company now wants to sell the state 340 acres for conservation tampabay.com/news/environme…

MaxChesnes's tweet card. After public backlash, Cabot Citrus Farms is now looking to sell more than 300 acres of its land in Hernando County to the state.

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Emily L. Mahoney@mahoneysthename · Jun 3

Weeks since its withdrawal, secrecy persists around the Florida land swap that would have granted 600 preserved, public acres to an LLC. Recently, someone posed as a producer for 60 Minutes to try to get information about who was talking about the deal. tampabay.com/news/environme…

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Chris Tisch@christisch1 · May 30

While many people have stayed in Tampa Bay after last year's hurricanes, some have left. They are spread across the country. @Michaela_Mull and @MaxChesnes talked to a bunch of them about why they decided to go. tampabay.com/hurricane/2025…

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Florida Issues@FloridaIssues · May 30

These Tampa Bay residents moved before a new hurricane season. They told us why. - goo.gl/alerts/xTJzyW #GoogleAlerts

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