Trump EPA Renews Commitment To End Some Animal Testing By 2035

WASHINGTON — Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Wednesday that his agency would renew its commitment to end the testing of chemicals on mammals by 2035.

The first Trump administration EPA set a deadline to end the practice by that year, but the Biden administration abandoned the 2035 deadline and delayed scientific progress on finding alternative methods that do not require testing on mammals. In an EPA press conference held Wednesday, Zeldin announced the agency would once again commit itself to reducing animal testing by finding scientific alternatives ahead of the nine-year deadline.

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“The wasteful Biden EPA animal testing is not the gold standard science that this administration is committed to. It’s fool’s gold,” White Coat Waste (WCW) senior vice president Justin Goodman said at the press conference. “When President Trump was re-elected and he nominated Lee Zeldin to lead the EPA, we knew a course correction was coming imminently, especially because, as a congressman, White Coat Waste awarded Mr. Zeldin for helping