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Apa administrator gina mc r mccarthy announced that she along with the obama administration plans to protect the public health with new rules to keep the environment cleaner and that includes curbbing carbon pollution and she says that the risks to the our health are clear. >> this is not just about disappearing polar bears and melting icecaps, although, i like polar bears and i know about melting ice caps. this is about protecting our health, and it is about protecting our homes. >> mccarthy says that the plan is going to be flexible so that the states can figure out what is best for them, an...

By 2030 the nation's power plants must cut emissions 30% from where they were in 2005. epa administrator gina mccarthy delivered the message. >> this is not just about disappearing polar biz and melting ice caps. this is about protecting our health and it is about protecting our homes. >> reporter: inaction means dire consequences, according to a white house climate report. rising sea levels will threaten millions of people in coastal areas. heavy drought, heatwaves, and wildfires will scorch communities and agriculture, sending food prices higher. the epa predicts the cut in carbon emissions ...

With a lot on their political plate the white house is making the big pivot to climate change. this morning e.p.a. administrator announced a proposal for toughest new rules on carbon pollution in the nation's history. >> this is not just about disappearing polar bears and melting ice caps, although i like polar bears and i know about melting ice caps. this is about protecting our health and it is about protecting our homes. >> the plan calls for a 30% cut from 2005 levels on carbon emissions from the nation's power plants by 2030. more than 600 coal fired power plants would have to make change...

Efforts? >> everything in search is on station time devoting effort into covering an area and looking, looking, looking. it takes hours to get to the search area to begin with so aircraft only have a certain endurance. that means they have less time to spend on station. >> aircraft endurance, a function of fuel. humans also. you had to deal with thane air france. what about that. >> most difficult surge, you're staring, looking at icecaps. if you look away for one second to sneeze you might miss a target. doing that for hours, you can imagine. you start to get fatigued and effectiveness decrea...

>> there is -- >> regulation of industry. >> they think that quote, capitalism is destroying the planet, raping and pillaging the planet for profit, and this is really a socialist agenda. you agree? >> yeah, absolutely. you have identified an interesting theme. democrats are in the process of identifying two major problems that will shape their agenda, which have been problems since the dawn of time, inequality. and the weather, and those two things are never going away. the way they justify an intrusiv state are now the problems. >> so they were going through this global warming, and then we ...