An attempt by Senate Republicans to rollback an Obama-era regulation limiting methane emissions on federal lands failed, but the Interior Department has announced it would review the rule on its own.

Proposed by the Bureau of Land Management back in February 2016 and implemented in November 2016, the rule requiring drilling companies to limit methane emissions on has been called burdensome and unnecessary by critics.

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