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Tom Perkins

EPA to launch program that lets people adopt its lab animals amid Trump cuts

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The EPA is launching a program to adopt some of its 20,000 lab animals in the wake of Trump administration plans to slash its research arm. Photograph: Panther Media Global/Alamy

The US Environmental Protection Agency is launching a new program to adopt some of its 20,000 lab animals in the wake of Trump administration plans to dramatically cut the regulator’s research arm.

The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer) non-profit obtained and revealed an EPA document announcing the adoption program. The document announced adoptions for zebrafish and rats from an EPA lab in North Carolina.

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