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CEQ Guts NEPA by Rescinding Regulations
Press ReleaseApril 11, 2025Equines, Terrestrial WildlifeToday the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) took the most drastic action since its creation in 1970 by rescinding 50 years’ worth of regulations that implement the National Environmental Policy...
National Endangered Species Coalition Responds to Republican-led Congressional Attacks on ESA and Gray Wolves
Press ReleaseMarch 25, 2025Endangered Species, Terrestrial WildlifeToday, the Republican-led US House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries considered legislation that would dramatically weaken the widely popular Endangered Species Act and strip protections for gray wolves in 48 states....
AWI Expands Directory to Help Unhoused People and Their Pets
Press ReleaseMarch 20, 2025Companion AnimalsToday, Safe Havens for Pets, an initiative of the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), launched an expanded online directory to include sheltering services that assist individuals who are experiencing homelessness with a pet....
Mink Legislation Reintroduced to Protect Public Health and Compensate Farmers
Press ReleaseMarch 19, 2025Farmed Animals, Terrestrial WildlifeUS Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) has reintroduced the Mink: Vectors for Infection Risk in the United States Act (Mink VIRUS Act), bipartisan legislation endorsed by the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI)....
Illinois Bill Requiring Disease Monitoring on Mink Farms Passes House Committee
Press ReleaseMarch 13, 2025Farmed AnimalsThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) celebrates today’s passage of the Mink Facility Disease Prevention Act (H.B. 2627) in the Public Health Committee of the Illinois House of Representatives. The bill...
AWI Awards Grants to Advance the Welfare of Animals Used in Research
Press ReleaseMarch 10, 2025Animals in LaboratoriesThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is pleased to announce the 2024 winners of the Refinement Research Award, which funds research projects that develop or test novel refinement methods, and the Implementing Refinement...
USDA’s Bird Flu Strategy Inadequate to Control Disease and Prevent Inhumane Treatment
Press ReleaseMarch 7, 2025Farmed AnimalsThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) appreciates that the US Department of Agriculture has developed a revised strategy to address the staggering impacts of the current bird flu outbreak, yet the...
ProTECT Act Would Protect Species Killed as Trophies
Press ReleaseMarch 7, 2025Terrestrial WildlifeThe Prohibiting Threatened and Endangered Creature Trophies (ProTECT) Act (H.R. 1934) was reintroduced yesterday by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA). The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends Lieu for continuing to champion...
Amid Legal Troubles, Monkey-Breeding Facility Backers Expand Operations
Press ReleaseMarch 3, 2025Animals in LaboratoriesThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is deeply concerned by the recent announcement that Safer Human Medicine (SHM)—the company behind a massive monkey-breeding facility planned in Georgia—has acquired a facility in Florida to hold non-human...
To Celebrate National Horse Protection Day, Lawmakers Reintroduce Bipartisan Legislation to End Horse Slaughter
Press ReleaseFebruary 27, 2025EquinesIn honor of National Horse Protection Day on March 1, a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers today reintroduced the Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act to permanently protect American horses...