The Environmental Protection Agency just finalized one of the Biden administration’s only outstanding climate rules, aimed at cracking down on leaks of methane — a potent planet-warming gas with an outsized impact on the climate.

What really caused shock — and anger — was that the president’s flagship climate law appeared out of the blue and seemed unfriendly to America’s allies. Most notably, the subsidies it offers for green energy exclude some of America’s “friends” such as the EU and South Korea.

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,