White Coat Waste (WCW) investigations have exposed recent accidents at one of the most dangerous National Institutes of Health (NIH) animal labs in the country. Documents uncovered by WCW reveal that the NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Montana quietly reported that a deadly “select agent” was “released, lost, or stolen” in November 2025 […]
A whistleblower letter alleges that a National Institutes of Health (NIH) animal lab long targeted by White Coat Waste (WCW) is in “full coverup mode” over a dangerous monkey bite accident and an apparent international virus smuggling incident that reportedly led to the suspension of animal experimenters and an ongoing FBI investigation. In direct […]
To coincide with Tax Week, White Coat Waste (WCW) has launched a national “WTF RFK?” ad campaign targeting Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for continuing to fund Fauci-era animal labs. Our investigations have exposed how, under RFK, Jr., the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has renewed and extended millions in funding for wasteful, […]
White Coat Waste (WCW) just filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Defense (DOD) to force the release of photos, videos, and other records about secretive U.S. military primate labs in Thailand, Peru, and the U.S., where hundreds of monkeys are subjected to wasteful and deadly taxpayer-funded experiments. 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 […]
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) analysis of government spending data shows that, under Director Jay Bhattacharya and ‘animal testing czar’ Nicole Kleinstreuer, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to dole out tens of millions in new funding to wasteful monkey labs, despite Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s pledges to end primate testing. The […]
We at White Coat Waste Project are huge fans of government transparency. We’ve always said that taxpayers have a right to know how our money is being spent. But transparency is more than just good policy — it’s also the law. One of the most long-standing government transparency laws is called the “Stevens Amendment,” which […]
Mace writes to Fauci about “Monkey Island” https://t.co/cU5018KVTu pic.twitter.com/4Cz3XCDcGy — The Hill (@thehill) December 1, 2021 There are some things you never want to find in your yard. Sinkholes. Skeletons. Booby traps. But if you’re South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace, whose congressional district includes the state’s coastal islands, there’s something else you don’t want to […]
