Trump Admin Rushes To Find Homes For Animals Used For Experiments Under Biden

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hoping to find homes for some of its testing animals held for research conducted under the Biden administration.

Under President Donald Trump’s first administration, the EPA aimed to phase-out animal testing by 2035, a plan the Biden administration abandoned on the grounds that the practice was necessary for scientific integrity. The EPA laid out requirements and restrictions for adopting test animals held in the agency’s Research Triangle Park (RPT) campus in North Carolina on April 28, marking the first time an adoption program had been implemented at that location, according to the EPA.

“As animals continued to be tested by the agency because of the intentional lack of progress on efforts to reduce animal testing over the past four years, the Trump EPA is working to get as many of the animals into loving homes as possible,” a spokesperson for the EPA told the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation “However, animals ineligible for adoption due to their exposure to harmful pollutants will be given humane end of life care. As EPA makes works to get back on track reducing animal testing, the agency will continue adhering to the gold standard of science when conducting research to support its statutory responsibilities.”

The action does not signal the end of all animal research at the EPA, according to the agency, though Administrator Lee Zeldin is committed to reimplementing the animal testing phase-out, according to several