Oil and natural gas companies for the first time will have to pay a federal fee if they emit dangerous methane above certain levels under a rule being made final by the Biden administration.

The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a major climate rule tackling methane emissions through a controversial fee on oil and gas companies. The final rule was announced on Tuesday amid the United Nations’s annual Climate Change Conference in Baku,

For the first time, oil and natural gas companies will have to pay a federal fee if their toxic methane emissions rise above specific levels, according to a final rule announced Tuesday by the U.S.

The Biden administration is imposing a fee on large energy companies that spew excess methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Republicans may be able to repeal it.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule Tuesday that implements a charge for oil and gas companies that release too much of the planet-warming gas methane. The fee was passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act,