• Following White Coat Waste (WCW) investigations and advocacy, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is resurrecting its historic Trump-era plan to eliminate animal testing.
• In 2023, WCW exposed that the Biden EPA quietly canceled Trump’s plan to phase out testing on dogs and other mammals by 2035 and retire rabbits from its labs. Establishment animal rights groups stayed silent.
• Now, Trump’s EPA states, “Administrator Zeldin is wholly committed to getting the agency back on track to eliminating animal testing”.
• WCW uncovered how the Biden EPA wasted tax dollars on animal tests for “environmental justice” and forced animals to inhale simulated wildfire smoke and emissions from rifles and handguns. It also killed rabbits that WCW offered to re-home. 
• WCW has been urging the Trump Administration to reinstate the EPA animal testing phaseout plan.

In 2023, a White Coat Waste (WCW) blockbuster investigation exposed how President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) canceled the Trump Administration’s historic and widely supported plans to phase out all testing on mammals and retire rabbits from its labs. 

While the establishment animal rights groups stayed silent and let the Biden EPA run roughshod over animals and taxpayers, we’ve been leading efforts in Washington to unite Republicans and Democrats in Congress and reinstate the policy. We’re proud to count former Trump EPA chief Andrew Wheeler among our many allies. 

In fact, resurrecting the Trump EPA plan to eliminate animal testing and retire survivors has been one of our top priorities for the new Administration.  

Now, it appears the EPA is on track to do just that. In a statement to the Washington Times, the EPA writes: 

“Under President Trump’s first term, EPA signed a directive to prioritize efforts to reduce animal testing and committed to reducing testing on mammals by 30 percent by 2025 and to eliminate it completely by 2035. The Biden Administration halted progress on these efforts by delaying compliance deadlines. Administrator Zeldin is wholly committed to getting the agency back on track to eliminating animal testing.” 

We’re grateful to newly appointed EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for making this a priority. He’s been in this fight with us for years and even earned a WCW award as a Congressman for his outstanding leadership on efforts that ended all dog testing at the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Now, Administrator Zeldin is taking steps to save puppies from being poisoned with pesticides and tens of thousands of other animals from being made obese, electroshocked, stressed, and forced to inhale simulated wildfire smoke and emissions from rifles and handguns.  

The solution is simple: