With 2025 drawing to a close, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is celebrating some of the year’s most significant steps ...

In December, the House Natural Resources Committee voted to advance HR 4776, the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED) Act. Targeting the National Environmental Policy ...

The US Department of Agriculture’s long history of ineffective Animal Welfare Act (AWA) enforcement against noncompliant breeders, dealers, exhibitors, and research facilities appears to have reached ...

Every day, Washington, DC, residents grapple with a shortage of affordable housing, with nearly half considered “rent burdened”—meaning rent swallows more than 30 percent of their gross income. The ...

This past October, AWI representatives attended back-to-back annual meetings of the Ropeless Consortium and the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts ...