Posted by Arin Greenwood | 30 October 2020

UPDATE December 30, 2020:As a result of our investigations, Congress has directed the NIH to commission an independent study by the National Academies of the NIH’s intramural primate testing and how modern alternatives can reduce their use. This direction is in the NIH’s 2021 funding bill (see page 69). You can read more about this...

Posted by Arin Greenwood | 29 October 2020

The VA is spending your 💰 to buy six-month-old puppies, just to cut out their hearts …and it’s happening in a secretive St. Louis lab. You are paying for it. But they DON’T want you to know about it. As first reported by Tony Messenger at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a successful (and ongoing) White Coat...

Posted by Arin Greenwood | 27 October 2020

As you know, it’s going to be a while longer before we know the winner of the 2020 presidential election. (Our crystal ball’s in the shop, too, alas.) But we can tell you with 100 percent assurance that regardless of who’s in the White House come January 20, 2021, taxpayers of all stripes have one...

Posted by Arin Greenwood | 23 October 2020

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ago, White Coat Waste Project took the Environmental Protection Agency to task for its cruel, wasteful, expensive, and outdated animal testing… with American taxpayers forced to pick up the tab for the 20,000 animals annually who were made to eat lard and then inhale diesel exhaust and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...

Posted by Arin Greenwood | 23 October 2020

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...

Posted by Arin Greenwood | 15 October 2020

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...

Posted by Anthony Bellotti | 02 October 2020

“Being a bystander to suffering is not an option.” That’s The Greenbaum Foundation’s motto. It drives Jim Greenbaum’s life’s work: funding—and finding—the world’s most visionary, impactful philanthropic opportunities. So it should be no surprise that Jim is the inaugural recipient of White Coat Waste Project’s new Policy Pioneer Award. This brand-new honor recognizes visionaries in...

Posted by Arin Greenwood | 23 September 2020

You can’t ignore this roar: More than 100,000 taxpayers have signed our petition demanding the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) stop its wasteful, cruel, and extremely disturbing kitten experiments and adopt out the survivors. Our petition has reached 100,000 signatures but it’s not too late for you to add yours! Are you listening, government white...

Posted by Arin Greenwood | 22 September 2020

Hey Cleveland: Did you know your local Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) facility is mutilating & slaughtering kittens in a secret “catstipation” lab in YOUR city…and they’re spending more than $3.4 million taxpayer dollars to do it? 🔥🔥🔥  Well you do now! 🔥🔥🔥 One of White Coat Waste Project’s billboards near the Cleveland VA targeting...