BISMARCK — The North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality will stop studying avenues the state could take to reduce its climate-warming emissions, the agency's director announced.

DEQ Director Dave Glatt told the state Environmental Review Advisory Council last week that the agency had discontinued its efforts under its Climate Pollution Reduction Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency in September and would wrap up any remaining work in the coming weeks.

North Dakota's fossil fuel industries and parts of its agriculture sector faced an uncertain future a few years ago when governments and corporations were seeking to aggressively cut emissions.

The state secured the $3 million federal grant as part of an effort to examine ways it could reduce its emissions without signifi

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