House Republicans passed a resolution on Wednesday that overturned an Interior Department rule that prohibited coal companies from polluting the water sources near mines.
Rachel Maddow reports on Donald Trump’s apparent selection of Scott Pruitt to lead the EPA, and Pruitt’s history of not only fighting the EPA on environmental regulations but advocating on behalf of the fossil fuel industry, including rejecting climate science.
Lawrence talks to Dave Archambault, Chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and actor and activist Shailene Woodley about the Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to block the Dakota Access Pipeline.