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Are You Telling Your Story? House returns to session November 14, 15, 16 [Adjourn for year]      -- Committee Schedule Senate returns to session November 15 [Adjourn for year]      -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events  -- Bay Journal: Volunteers Plant Trees Around-The-Clock In 4 Pennsylvania Counties In Chesapeake Bay Watershed - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal  [PaEN] -- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper Honors Longtime Board President Kathy Snavely - By John Zaktansky, Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper   [PaEN] -- Gov. Wolf Signs Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies Into Law For Natural Gas, Hydrogen And Petrochemical Industries With No Public Accountability Or Environmental Safeguards  [PaEN] -- Spotlight PA - Stephen Caruso: Wolf Signs Hastily Passed $2 Billion Tax Credit Package Encouraging Natural Gas Use In PA -- City & State PA: Wolf Signs $2 Billion Tax Credit Package That Boosts Natural Gas Industry That Drew Ire From Both Sides Of The Aisle ...

On November 3, Gov. Wolf signed House Bill 2528 (Struzzi-R-Indiana) into law that would set aside 20 percent of the new federal funding to plug conventional oil and gas wells for a new Orphan Well Plugging Grant Program. The bill amends language allowed to become law in July in House Bill 2644-- Act 96 to fix significant problems with the grant program that conflicted with the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law well plugging program making it totally unworkable. The new changes also include provisions prohibiting grants going to conventional oil and gas companies that have any unresolved violations of environmental laws and regulations, something missing entirely from the July statute. Ban On Increasing Bond Amounts Remains In spite of the fact House Bill 2528 amends the same section of law, no changes were made in the provisions of Act 96 from July that prohibits DEP from increasing well plugging bond amounts for conventional oil and gas operators for 10 years. That la...

On November 1, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) announced the launch of its new podcast series, We Are Nature, with the first episodes available now.  The new series, comprised of 11 regular episodes and several bonus episodes, features 30 interviews with museum researchers, organizers, policy makers, farmers, and science communicators about climate action in Southwestern Pennsylvania.  The goal of the series is to share how humans can create–and are already working towards–a livable, just, and joyous future.  The series is created, produced, and hosted by Pittsburgh-based filmmaker and environmental educator Michael Pisano. Science communicator and former CMNH program manager Taiji Nelson joins as co-host and co-producer. Field reporters Di-ay Battad, David Kelley, and Jamen Thurmond round out the production crew.  The first episode, entitled “This Is an Emergency, Not an Apocalypse,” featuring interviews with Radiolab creator Jad Abumrad and CMNH Curator of Anthropoc...