About NEWMOA

The Northeast Waste Management Officials' Association (NEWMOA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan interstate association that has a membership composed of the hazardous waste, solid waste, waste site cleanup, and pollution prevention program directors for the environmental agencies in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont. NEWMOA was established by the Governors of the New England states as an official regional organization to coordinate interstate hazardous and solid waste, pollution prevention, and waste site cleanup activities, and was formally recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1986.

NEWMOA's mission is to develop and sustain an effective partnership of states that helps achieve a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment by exploring, developing, promoting, and implementing environmentally sound solutions for:

• Reducing materials use and preventing pollution and waste,
• Properly reusing and recycling discarded materials that have value,
• Safely managing solid and hazardous wastes, and
• Remediating contaminated sites.

• facilitate communication and cooperation among member states, between the states and the U.S. EPA, and between the states and other stakeholders;
• provide research on and evaluation of emerging issues, best practices, and data to help state programs maximize efficiency and effectiveness; and
• facilitate development of regional approaches to solving critical environmental problems.

NEWMOA Documents