Global climate change presents challenges associated with
balancing potential environmental impacts with a wide variety of
economic, technical, and lifestyle changes that may be necessary
to address the issue. A government-industry task force is
working to develop technologies and infrastructure for carbon
capture and sequestration with the goal of reducing greenhouse
gas (GHG) emissions that can contribute to global climate
change. US Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas development
opponents complained that the Department of the Interior and
Minerals Management Service’s preliminary final 5-year OCS plan
goes too far, while proponents declared that it doesn’t go far
enough. Newark East field in North Texas, center of the
Mississippian Barnett shale play, was Texas’s largest gas-
producing field in 2006 and could become the largest in terms of
ultimate recovery in the Lower 48. A recent study of the
European refining industry from Concawe (Conservation of Clean
Air and Water in Europe) concludes that the imbal