"Lawmakers in Miami-Dade and Broward counties at odds regarding using former airport site to build ‘toxic’ facility"

"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.

That plant was in the fast-growing municipality of Doral, whose 80,000 residents subsequently mounted a successful campaign to push Reworld, the New Jersey-based waste management company formerly known as Covanta, out of the city."

Richard Luscombe reports for the Guardian September 30, 2024. [2]