We didn’t just get coverage — we redefined the issue. White Coat Waste made animal testing a bipartisan cause and a Trump White House priority. The New York Times explains how we did it. On March 12, 2026, The New York Times’ Sheryl Stolberg reports: “White Coat Waste … painted animal studies as government waste” […]
White Coat Waste (WCW) testified at the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship’s “Sunshine Week: Bringing Secret Government Spending to Light” hearing. WCW’s Senior Vice President Justin Goodman explained how government transparency tools, like the Freedom of Information Act and federal spending databases, have helped expose and end taxpayer-funded animal tests like […]
White Coat Waste (WCW) and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) have joined forces and filed formal complaints with Department of Defense (DOD) Inspector General Platte Moring, documenting Pentagon-funded animal labs that failed to publicly disclose their taxpayer funding as required under Sen. Ernst’s 2021 federal law, the COST Act. Read WCW’s complaint and Sen. Ernst’s letter to […]
Senator James Lankford’s (R-OK) new Federal Fumbles report highlights hundreds of millions of dollars in wasteful, taxpayer-funded animal experiments exposed and ended by White Coat Waste (WCW). Lankford features WCW’s viral investigation that eliminated National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for disturbing transgender animal tests, in which mice, rats, and monkeys were subjected to […]
A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation reveals that American tax dollars via the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are still funding cruel, outdated experiments on dogs, cats, and rabbits in Canada. Through Freedom of Information Act requests, WCW recently followed the NIH money to Canadian cat labs at the University of Sherbrooke and […]
