Howard J. Herzog is a Senior Research Engineer in the MIT Energy Initiative. He was a Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (released September 2005), a coauthor of the MIT Future of Coal Study (released March 2007), and a US delegate to the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum's Technical Group (June 2003–September 2007). He was awarded the 2010 Greenman Award by the IEAGHG in recognition of contributions made to the development of greenhouse gas control technologies.