Florida is about to build the nation’s largest trash incinerator—but no one can agree on where to put it

Residents argue the project will disproportionately impact majority-Black and -Hispanic communities in the Miami-Dade area.

When leaders of Florida’s most populous county met in September to pick a site for what could become the nation’s largest trash incinerator, so many people went to the government center to protest that overflow seating spilled into the building’s atrium.