Obama's Carbon Cuts Plan

To President Obama, pollution represents a national health and environmental crisis: He's been courting support for what's being seen as one of his key pieces of legacy legislation.

There'll be a new rule to force fossil fuel-burning power plants in the US to cut their carbon emissions by 30 percent, compared to 2005 levels, by the year 2030.

Opponents say it'll cost thousands of jobs, and push energy bills higher.

The American economist Irwin Stelzer at the Hudson Institute in Washington told us more about how the President's plan was being received.