Today in your Trail Mix:
The DEC says it will update its 100-year floodplain maps to reflect recent disasters.
Congress votes on a program to retrain displaced workers.
Plus, horse drawn beer.
Natural gas
Following the flooding caused by recent tropical storms the Department of Environmental Conservation is planning to update the contours of its 100-year floodplains - and to prohibit hydrofracking in those areas (Steve Reilly, Press & Sun-Bulletin).
North Carolina is the latest state to debate whether or not to allow hydrofracking (Emery P. Dalesio, AP).
Pennsylvania's governor, on the heels of proposing a fee on gas drillers, says the state needs to offer other perks so that drillers will invest in natural gas infrastructure for cars (Mary Wilson, WHYY's Newsworks).
Jobs and the economy
Congress is set to vote tomorrow on legislation that would help with retraining for workers whose jobs were sent overseas (Brian Tumulty, Gannett).
Author Sylvia Nasar will be at UAlbany tonight to promote "Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius" (Eric Anderson, The Buzz).
Speaking out
College radio stations will protest the recent trend of university's selling off broadcasters to help meet tight budgets - by going off air for part of Tuesday (Mary Beth Marklein, USA Today).
Governor Cuomo doesn't take a position on the Occupy Wall Street protests, but does say that the right to protest is "what makes a democracy work" (Azi Paybarah, Capital New York).
Protestors in Buffalo picked up the Occupy Wall Street movement spirit over the weekend, pledging to occupy Niagara Square "in perpetuity" (Daniel Robison, Innovation Trail).
Business
HSBC is foreclosing on homes again, after allegations about faulty paperwork put seizures on hold (Jonathan D. Epstein, Buffalo News).
A tech park that sells itself as "green" has recruited a big tenant to move to Tonawanda from Niagara Falls (Matt Glynn, Buffalo News).
Actual horses will pull a wagon full of Genesee Brewing's 12 Horse Ale to bars in Rochester tomorrow, to herald the return of the vintage brew (Thomas Adams, Rochester Business Journal).
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