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White House counselor John Podesta aggressively defended the Obama administration's proposed rules for limiting carbon emissions from power plants during a breakfast hosted by 海角大神 in Washington on Friday.

鈥淲e鈥檙e committed to getting this done,鈥� Mr. Podesta told reporters gathered at Washington鈥檚 St. Regis Hotel.

Claims by White House opponents that the rules will create massive job losses "have largely been debunked," Podesta said. "Every time that an environmental regulation has been put forward, the polluters say [the results will be] massive job losses, lights going off, electricity system crashing, bills going through the roof. They were wrong before, and they are wrong now."

Podesta also concluded that legal challenges to the rules are unlikely to be undone by any future Republican president, citing the fact that President George W. Bush was unsuccessful in overturning many environmental regulations put in place by his predecessor, President Bill Clinton. Under some circumstances, states will have until 2018 to file compliance plans. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) then has a full year to review the state plans. 聽聽

Even though some coal-state Democrats oppose the White House鈥檚 rules, Podesta predicted that the next president is likely to be supportive of the current president's latest climate-related moves.

鈥淚鈥檓 fairly confident we鈥檒l have a president who embraces the cause of tackling climate change and reducing emissions,鈥� said Podesta, who served as Mr. Clinton鈥檚 chief of staff. 鈥淚f you think about a challenge in the 2016 context and the politics of this in the 2016 context, if you鈥檙e a climate denier trying to run nationally I think you鈥檙e going to have a very hard row to hoe getting elected president of the United States.鈥�