The Environmental Protection Agency has pulled a legal complaint filed in 2024 against Geo Group (GEO), a major donor to President Trump that has over $1B in contracts with the White House to run private prisons and ICE detention facilities, ProPublica’s Sharon Lerner and Lisa Song report. The complaint, which the agency filed last June while Joe Biden was still in office, involved Geo’s use of a disinfectant known as Halt at the Adelanto ICE facility in California, the author say, noting that the complaint alleges that over 1,000 times across 2022 and 2023, the company had its workers use the disinfectant, which causes eye damages and skin burns, without proper protection. According to a notice from last week from Matthew Salazar, a manager in the agency’s Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Division, the case against GEO would be dropped, the authors add, noting that the notice did not include an explanation.
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