The Trump administration plans to continue using emergency authority to stop coal-fired power plants from retiring, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Energy Department has already issued emergency orders to halt the retirement of two fossil fuel-fired plants, and plans to use the same process to keep others operating, said the people, who asked not to be named discussing internal matters.

Although such orders are typically reserved for natural disasters or war, the agency used them to stop the closure of a Michigan coal-fired power plant owned by Consumers Energy and a Pennsylvania oil-and-gas generator owned by Constellation Energy Corp.

“I think this administration’s policy is going to be to stop the closure of coal plants,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Wednesday

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