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Watch: Protesters interrupt confirmation hearing on Trump’s EPA pick

By Thomas McKinless

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Demonstrators were removed from a Senate Energy and Public Works committee confirmation hearing for EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler Wednesday morning. The protesters shouted “shut down Wheeler, not the EPA” shortly after Wheeler began his opening statement.

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