The rule issued by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management will tighten limits on gas flaring on federal lands and require that energy companies improve methods to detect methane leaks that add to planet-warming greenhouse gas pollution.
It also regulates smaller wells that are now required to find and plug methane leaks.
Venting and flaring activity from oil and gas production on public lands has significantly increased in recent decades.
Interior had previously announced a rule to restrict methane emissions under former President Barack Obama.
The climate law includes $1.5 billion in grants and other spending to improve monitoring and data collection of methane emissions, intending to find and repair natural gas leaks.
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