Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Tuesday she’s concerned over how the White House’s funding freeze will impact the county’s budget. The White House is pausing federal grants and loans starting Tuesday as President Donald Trump’s administration begins an across-the-board ideological review of its spending,

MIAMI - The Miami-Dade commission will discuss the future of solid waste management during a meeting on Tuesday. It comes after Mayor Daniella Levine Cava issued a memo recommending that plans to build a new incinerator in the county be scrapped in favor of continuing long-hauling waste.

Two months after her plan to build a new garbage incinerator came under attack by President Donald Trump’s son, Miami-Dade’s mayor is dropping her longtime fight for a new trash-burning facility and instead wants the county to explore building a new landfill somewhere else in Florida.

Miami-Dade County abandons plans for a new trash-burning facility in Doral, opting for hauling trash to out-of-county locations instead.

Miami-Dade County Commissioners Juan Carlos Bermudez and Raquel Regalado have been requesting the county take a comprehensive view of solid waste solutions.

Morgan Rynor reports the meeting comes after Mayor Daniella Levine Cava recommended that plans to build a new incinerator be scrapped.

After nearly two years of Miami-Dade County considering locations for its new billion-dollar incinerator, the county is going back to square one. Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has now decided against pushing for a waste-to-energy plant or incinerator.