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EPA Touts Zeldin’s Animal Rights Record But Appears To Drop Test-Ban Plan

April 11, 2025
EPA is touting Administrator Lee Zeldin’s support of animal rights issues when he was a congressman, but the agency appears to be dropping a plan to renew its pledge to eliminate the use of animal testing by 2035 that was made during President Donald Trump’s first term. “Under President Trump’s first term, EPA signed a directive to prioritize efforts to reduce animal testing and committed to reducing testing on mammals by 30 percent by 2025 and to eliminate it completely...


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