The taxpayer watchdog White Coat Waste Project (WCW) is celebrating the Trump administration’s EPA meeting its target to slash mammal testing by 30 percent in 2025 as the EPA touts its top accomplishments since Trump took office.

This was actually a goal outlined by former EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, who led the agency in the first Trump administration. At the time, he said of the memo he signed, “Today’s memo directs the agency to aggressively reduce animal testing, including reducing animal study requests and funding 30% by 2025 and completely eliminating them by 2035.”

He added, “We are also awarding $4.25 million to advance the research and development of alternative test methods for evaluating the safety of chemicals that will minimize, and hopefully eliminate, the need fo

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