Following years of White Coat Waste (WCW) campaigns, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has officially recommitted to meeting its 2035 deadline to phase out all testing on dogs, rabbits, and other mammals. Today, WCW spoke at an event alongside Trump EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and former Trump EPA chief Andrew Wheeler to announce the […]
White Coat Waste is leading efforts with Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) to pass bipartisan legislation to retire animals from federal labs. The newly reintroduced Violet’s Law, named after a hound rescued by WCW from a taxpayer-funded lab, would require all federal agencies to enact policies […]
WCW’s FOIA to Freedom campaign strategy has led to a last-minute pardon that EVERYONE will be very hoppy about: As first reported in the Washington Times, outgoing EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced today that the agency will be retiring, not killing, rabbits who survived the agency’s sick and wasteful animal experiments White Coat Waste Project […]
There is no denying that 2020 has been *a year*. But you know what? While so much of 2020 has been a ???? show—our small and scrappy organization still got a ????-ton accomplished! This year, White Coat Waste Project defunded and defeated more government labs than any other organization… and we did it with fewer […]
Make new friends, but keep the old…so we can work our tails off together to ???? the government from spending YOUR money on cruel & wasteful taxpayer-funded animal experiments! With the 2020 election wrapped up, we are thrilled that White Coat Waste Project’s best friends and allies in Congress are sticking around on Capitol Hill […]
Not long ago, White Coat Waste Project took the Environmental Protection Agency to task for its cruel, wasteful, expensive, and outdated animal testing… with American taxpayers forced to pick up the tab for the 20,000 animals annually who were made to eat lard and then inhale diesel exhaust and smog at the hands of EPA […]
We’ve told the story of how WCW ended taxpayer-funded animal testing at the Environmental Protection Agency, becoming the first agency ever to set a benchmark and timeline for the complete phase-out of taxpayer-funded animal testing. We love telling that story. It’s a great and happy story! We’ve honored EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler for his historic […]
Last year, White Coat Waste Project was honored to attend Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s historic announcement of the most comprehensive plan in U.S. government history to completely end wasteful animal testing exposed by WCW and opposed by a supermajority of taxpayers. The EPA is the first agency ever to set a benchmark and […]
About a year ago, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the most comprehensive plan in U.S. government history to completely end “horrific and inhumane” animal testing exposed by WCW and opposed by a supermajority of taxpayers. This week, the agency took a big step forward by giving us the roadmap for how they’re going to […]
Thanks to the tireless advocacy and generous support of White Coat Waste Project’s more than 2.5 million supporters, 2019 brought historic victories in our fight to end wasteful taxpayer-funded animal experiments. Here are our top wins to close out the decade: Following WCW’s exposé and year-long campaign against the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s “kitten slaughterhouse”–which […]
