Dive summary:

• Commissioners and citizens in a Miami neighborhood are trying to pass a resolution for the Health Department to investigate a string of cancer related deaths in the neighborhood around King Metal Recycling Plant.
• The facility was cited with a code violation for not surrounding the plant with walls and there have been contamination issues linked to the plant in the past.
• So far eight people have died from cancer in the area and a ninth person is still battling the cancer.
   

From the article:

Two county commissioners are pushing for the county health department to investigate what they believe could be a cancer cluster in Miami.

Commissioners Jean Monestime and Barbara J. Jordan sponsored a resolution stating that there have been an “unusually high number” of cancer cases among residents living close to a metal recycling facility near Hialeah. Should the resolution pass, the commission will ask the Florida Department of Health and the Miami-Dade Health Department to investigate whether it is the result of a cancer cluster in the community. ...