On June 25, New Jersey Senate approved (on a 30-5 vote) a measure (already approved in the Assembly on a 56-19 vote) prohibiting the treatment, discharge, disposal, or storage of wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings, or other by-products of hydraulic fracturing anywhere in the state. Gov. Chris Christie (R) now has 45 days to sign, veto, or conditionally veto the bill. Although there is no natural gas exploration or production New Jersey, there are geological formations in the state’s northwest that might contain natural gas amenable to fracking.