Energy Secretary Rick Perry is taking steps to make sure that struggling coal and nuclear power plants don’t close prematurely, in the Trump administration’s latest effort to bolster energy jobs.

Perry issued a memo late Friday directing his chief of staff to begin a 60-day review of how regulations, tax policy and the federally overseen electric markets, which incentivize power plant development, may be forcing coal and other power plants to close faster than expected.

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