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 […]
A White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation reveals how taxpayer dollars are still being funneled to an abusive puppy mill that breeds beagles for painful and deadly experiments. Documents obtained by WCW show puppies purchased with tax dollars from the disgraced Ridglan Farms are being tortured in tests funded by the National Institutes of Health. […]
White Coat Waste’s (WCW) latest investigation has exposed a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded lab at the University of Chicago that is deliberately inducing the “most severe stroke” in dogs before killing them. Documents obtained by WCW reveal that helpless dogs “at risk of … significant suffering” have their arteries intentionally blocked to cut […]
Citing new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigations, Rep. Nancy Mace just fired off a letter calling on Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to end all current and future National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for painful dog and cat experiments. Mace referenced new WCW research showing that, in January, the NIH doled out […]
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investigation reveals that American tax dollars via the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are still funding cruel, outdated experiments on dogs, cats, and rabbits in Canada.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 […]
White Coat Waste (WCW) has uncovered that the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) has been breeding and maintaining a colony of dogs with genetic vision disorders for nearly 50 years, wasting over $46 million in taxpayer money. As recently as January 2026, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) paid a UPenn lab to breed dogs […]
Following White Coat Waste’s (WCW) investigations, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has introduced an amendment to defund the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) painful dog and cat experiments. For years, WCW has exposed how the NSF funds labs that abuse dogs and cats, including inducing strokes in dogs, experimental drug tests involving repeated injections into puppies’ eyeballs, […]
White Coat Waste Project has exposed how outdated FDA red tape forces drug makers to torture and kill tens of thousands of dogs—and millions of other animals—each year to fulfill burdensome and useless animal testing regulations. We’re working with Congress to pass the bipartisan Alternatives to Animals for Regulatory Fairness (AARF) Act to cut this […]
Shortly before Halloween, we revealed the fifth #BeagleGate experiment funded by Dr. Fauci’s NIAID. It was a doozy: after puppies were infected with mutant bacteria, up to 250 ticks feasted on each dog — and then, each dog was summarily killed. As many as 138 dogs are slated to be killed in this ongoing experiment. […]
