New Delhi, Oct. 28 -- US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration is "terminating" a Biden-era rule that aimed to cut planet-warming emissions of methane from oil and gas drilling.

Trump said during a campaign rally in Texas that the change would save companies and consumers billions of dollars and unlock 210 million barrels of oil. That's equivalent to about 10 days of US petroleum consumption, according to the Associated Press.

Trump, campaigning for Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton, claimed that Biden's plan "crushed the small operators" with crippling regulations.

"I'm officially terminating Biden's expensive and unnecessary methane regulations to save consumers and energy producers $45 billion in cos...