The coal industry is urging EPA to craft a new greenhouse gas (GHG) endangerment finding to justify its proposed new source performance standards (NSPS) for power plant GHGs, saying that EPA's effort to issue the rule without such a finding or by using its 2009 motor vehicle GHG finding violates the air act and ignores public comment requirements. "If EPA wishes to force society to conform to EPA mandates restricting coal usage, EPA must ground those mandates in the language of the [Clean Air Act], and it must provide an explanation of the public health and welfare danger its regulation will avoid and any public health and welfare disbenefits such regulation will create - and it must give the public an opportunity to comment," Peabody Energy Co., a St.
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