Directly following White Coat Waste’s (WCW) investigations, grassroots pressure, and lobbying, Congress is advancing 2026 Pentagon budget bill bills that would cut funding for the Department of Defense’s (DOD) painful experiments on dogs and cats and Chinese animal labs. Congress’s action comes weeks after WCW convinced the Pentagon to cancel a $10 million cat...
Just 48 hours after Congress grilled NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya using exclusive White Coat Waste investigations, the NIH now says it will phase out dog and cat labs—a stunning reversal triggered by pressure from our relentless campaign to protect pets from government abuse. White Coat Waste is encouraged that NIH has finally committed to...
In the wake of mounting controversy at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—including public backlash over Acting Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer’s defense of animal testing—Congress is turning up the pressure. White Coat Waste (WCW) has rallied lawmakers to directly confront the agency’s dog and cat labs, misguided priorities, and reckless spending. WCW has exclusively...
Following through on its commitment from earlier this year, President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking action to cut wasteful animal tests and retire lab survivors. Statement from Anthony Bellotti, President and Founder, White Coat Waste “Reinstating the EPA’s animal testing phase-out and its lab animal retirement policy has been a top priority...
After a years-long campaign by White Coat Waste (WCW), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will become the first federal agency in U.S. history to eliminate primate testing—the direct result of WCW’s investigations, shutdown strategy, and legislative leadership. Since 2019, WCW has been exposing the VA’s cruel and wasteful experiments on primates and successfully...
Last month, following a nine-year White Coat Waste (WCW) campaign, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) shut down its last in-house beagle laboratory. WCW first exposed this lab in 2016—no one else did. Over 40 years, it slaughtered more than 2,100 beagles. It was the federal government’s largest and last confirmed in-house dog lab....
Following a White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation and campaign, the Trump Administration has cut a contract for cruel experimental drug tests on 300 beagles a week in a Chinese lab funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of Defense (DOD). The decision came just days after WCW campaigns shut down the...
Following years of White Coat Waste (WCW) efforts, the Trump Administration’s Department of the Navy has announced that it is banning all wasteful and cruel experiments on dogs and cats. The Navy’s historic announcement comes just ten days after the Pentagon canceled a $10 million cat experiment funded by the Navy. WCW uncovered how...
Following a year-long White Coat Waste (WCW) campaign, Trump Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has confirmed the USDA is ending its collaboration with Wuhan-linked experimenters on dangerous maximum pain bird flu gain-of-function tests. WCW’s investigation exposed how in 2021 the USDA launched a five-year $1 million collaboration with the Wuhan lab’s parent organization to soup...
