Since first launching our campaigns in 2016, White Coat Waste Project (WCW) has done more than any other organization to find, expose and defund cruel and wasteful taxpayer-funded experiments on dogs and puppies.    We made history last year by shutting down the last of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) painful dog experiments. Building on...

Prompted in part by White Coat Waste Project (WCW) investigations, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG) just released a damning new audit report documenting how the National Institute of Health (NIH) and EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) mismanaged the taxpayer-funded grant that paid for dangerous coronavirus gain-of-function experiments at the Wuhan...

  It’s only the third week of the new year and a new Congressional session, but we’re already whacking wasteful spending on Capitol Hill! On the heels of a damning federal audit prompted by WCW that documents how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) violated federal policies and mismanaged the notorious...

As we recently reported, after three years of White Coat Waste Project (WCW) efforts—and inaction and obstruction by Congress—the newly-minted House leadership is finally starting to investigate whether white coats in Wuhan wasted our hard-earned money on reckless animal experiments that sparked a devastating pandemic.  This can’t come fast enough for the millions of taxpayers...

Animals should be treated with care, not cruelty NIH should follow VA example and end cruel experiments on dogs Written by Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) and Justin Goodman, Senior Vice President, White Coat Waste Project Originally published by Nevada Current |  January 17, 2023 In recent years, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been...

Ever since we first exposed and cut taxpayer funding for dangerous gain-of-function experiments on animals at the Wuhan lab, we’ve been urging Congress and the White House to investigate whether a lab leak caused the COVID pandemic.  Now, after nearly three years of foot-dragging by Congress, the newly installed House leadership has placed a COVID...

White Coat Waste Project (WCW) is proud to award its third annual Greenbaum Policy Pioneer award to two-time WCW Waste Warrior (2016  & 2021) and recently retired U.S. Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) for her decades of visionary leadership and work with WCW on efforts to protect animals and taxpayers from wasteful and cruel government experiments. WCW...