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Richard Luscombe in Miami

Feud erupts between Florida officials over proposed trash incineration plant

Workers remove garbage from a truck at a landfill
Workers remove garbage from a truck at a landfill in Miami Gardens, Florida, on 26 July 2023. Photograph: Marco Bello/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Residents of two south Florida counties are feuding over the proposed construction of a huge trash incineration plant that environmentalists say will subject thousands of people to toxic fumes and a risk of polluted drinking water.

The mayor of Miami-Dade county, Daniella Levine Cava, settled on a long-disused airport far from any of its own residential neighborhoods as the preferred site to build a $1.5bn replacement for a previous waste-to-energy facility that burned down last year.

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