We have some big news for you in our fight to cut FDA red tape: Following our campaign and an outpouring of support from our grassroots taxpayer advocates, a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers has just introduced WCW-backed legislation to give drug companies the freedom to avoid the Food and Drug Administration’s cruel, pointless, expensive, and […]
As you know, it’s going to be a while longer before we know the winner of the 2020 presidential election. (Our crystal ball’s in the shop, too, alas.) But we can tell you with 100 percent assurance that regardless of who’s in the White House come January 20, 2021, taxpayers of all stripes have one […]
???? More than 110,000 White Coat Waste Project supporters so far have signed our petition demanding the Food and Drug Administration abolish its wasteful and cruel dog testing mandate! And in July, powerful Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives sent a strongly worded letter to the FDA, writing that getting rid of the […]
National Dog Day is our favorite howladay here at WCW. This year, we are thrilled the spotlight’s on the incredible efforts from both sides of the aisle to end taxpayer-funded, and government-mandated, dog experiments. In The Hill, philanthropist and WCW board adviser Louise Linton wrote a great op-ed recognizing and cheering bipawtisan efforts to cut […]
2019 was historic for White Coat Waste Project’s years-long campaign to stop the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) wasteful taxpayer-funded dog testing. As one headline put it, the “VA’s taxpayer-funded dog experiments slow to a near-end” after several key WCW victories that shut down 75 percent of the agency’s dog testing, including the VA’s dog […]
The final federal spending package for 2020 was just signed into law by President Trump. After more than a year of work with Congressional leaders, White Coat Waste Project and its two-million-plus supporters scored some historic, hard-won wins in the bill that will hold government accountable for wasteful animal tests, save taxpayers money and spare […]
White Coat Waste Project’s bipartisan event on Capitol Hill last night to promote Violet’s Law (aka the AFTER Act) proved once again that dogs are the great unifier. “Hounds on the Hill” was co-hosted by AFTER Act leaders Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Gary Peters (D-MI), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and Representatives Brendan Boyle (D-PA) and […]
As White Coat Waste Project (WCW) first exposed during tax season in 2017, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Richmond, Virginia lab was the only facility in the entire federal government using tax dollars for excruciatingly painful experiments on dogs without anesthesia. Now, as first reported by WRIC, documents obtained via the Freedom of Information […]
UPDATE (6/25/19): Following WCW advocacy and leadership from Reps. Dina Titus (D-NV), Brian Mast (R-FL) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), the full U.S. House of Representatives has passed its 2020 VA spending bill that completely defunds painful dog testing at the agency (see section 247). The Senate will consider the legislation this summer. ORIGINAL POST […]
As White Coat Waste Project (WCW) has documented, the Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is one of the last VA facilities in the country still conducting painful taxpayer-funded dog experiments. Now, Fox 8 News is reporting that these wasteful tests have been halted. The move follows WCW’s ongoing campaign and recent exposé showing that […]
