Coconut Grove residents suing city over infamous ‘Old Smokey’ incinerator: ‘An injustice was done’

MIAMI — A group of Miami residents is taking legal action against the city, claiming they were sickened by a notorious incinerator in the city’s Coconut Grove neighborhood.

A Miami-Dade court hearing on Wednesday marked day one of five in the case.

The lawsuit alleges that residents in the historically-Black West Grove section were exposed to cancer-causing ash from an incinerator that operated there for more than 40 years, known infamously as “Old Smokey.”…

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