Posted by Justin Goodman | 22 March 2017

  As first reported in Military Times, White Coat Waste Project has just filed a complaint with the Department of Veterans Affairs Inspector General requesting an investigation into new evidence of abuses in dog experimentation laboratories at the McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Richmond, Virginia. WCW’s new investigation has documented that McGuire VAMC staff currently conduct...

Posted by Justin Goodman | 07 March 2017

UPDATE (1/26/18): The FDA announced it is permanently ending its nicotine addiction experiment and sending dozens of monkeys involved in the study to a sanctuary. Read more. Last week, White Coat Waste Project announced our new campaign to challenge the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) secrecy about its taxpayer-funded nicotine addition experiments on baby monkeys. In particular,...

Posted by Justin Goodman | 03 March 2017

UPDATE (1/26/18): The FDA announced it is permanently ending its nicotine addiction experiment and sending dozens of monkeys involved in the study to a sanctuary. Read more. White Coat Waste Project is fighting an epidemic of government secrecy about taxpayer-funded animal experiments, and now we’re challenging transparency failures at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Our team recently...

Posted by Justin Goodman | 27 February 2017

  We have major news! The government’s watchdog office is about to begin its first-ever audit of billions in spending on and transparency about federal experiments on dogs and millions of other animals–and it’s because of White Coat Waste Project and our dedicated supporters. As outlined in the original post below, our December 2016 “Spending to Death”...

Posted by Anthony Bellotti | 23 February 2017

We are proud to announce that the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC)  has named White Coat Waste Project Vice President Justin Goodman as one of its  “40 under 40” for 2017.  Justin was one of only four independents chosen for this year’s prestigious award. Since he joined WCW six months ago,  he has secured the first ever federal audit of...

Posted by Justin Goodman | 18 February 2017

  Two weeks after White Coat Waste Project first broke the news about the USDA inexplicably deleting its animal welfare database, the agency has bowed to pressure from WCW and our supporters, bipartisan Congress members and other advocates. As reported in the Washington Post, the USDA has begun restoring access to documents about government laboratories and other taxpayer-funded...

Posted by Justin Goodman | 13 February 2017

  This past week, we had the pleasure of being guests on two high-profile programs to discuss our work on the bipartisan FACT Act, the USDA animal welfare database scandal, and other campaigns to expose and end wasteful taxpayer-funded animal experiments. First, we were on SiriusXM’s Conversations with Maria, hosted by actor, activist and journalist...

Posted by Justin Goodman | 08 February 2017

  In her widely-read Washington Times column today, author and FOX News contributor Tammy Bruce slammed the USDA’s decision to delete its animal welfare database, and praised White Coat Waste Project’s work with Congress on the FACT Act to increase transparency about taxpayer-funded animal experiments: Just as the USDA made its move against transparency, the good...

Posted by Justin Goodman | 02 February 2017

  Government agencies openly admit that animal testing for the safety of chemicals and drugs is slow, expensive and inaccurate compared to modern cell-based and computerized tests. Yet, they still spend untold millions of tax dollars each year on toxicity tests in which rats, mice, dogs and other animals are force-fed enormous doses of cosmetics...