About the Office of Public Affairs (OPA)
What We Do
OPA is the primary office for all EPA communications. The Associate Administrator for Public Affairs serves as the Agency's Public Information Officer (PIO) and is the principal advisor to the Administrator on all issues concerning short-term and long-term strategic communications.
The Office of Public Affairs:
- prepares speeches for the Administrator and senior managers,
- serves as the principal news media gateway for official agency announcements, press releases and statements, speeches, Congressional and public hearing testimony, biographies of principal officers, and other documents of public interest,
- coordinates the Agency's external message for emergency response activities,
- serves as the Agency-wide point of contact for the planning, developing, and reviewing of all Agency print, promotional, display, audiovisual and broadcast products (other than news and web-based products) intended for the public,
- directs Agency multilingual outreach and communications efforts,
- manages EPA's web content, including content on epa.gov and in new social media, and
- communicates with EPA personnel on a variety of topics.
Programs and Projects Managed by OPA
- EPA newsroom and news releases
- Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and other social media channels
- EPA Perspectives
- EPA en español
Mail code: 1701A | EPA mailing addresses
Location: EPA Headquarters at Washington, D.C. Federal Triangle campus
OPA Organization
Maria Michalos, Acting Associate Administrator
Nancy Grantham, Principal Deputy Associate Administrator
- Phone: 202-564-6879
Timothy Carroll, Press Secretary
- Email: carroll.timothy@epa.gov
Khanya Brann, Deputy Press Secretary
- Email: brann.khanya@epa.gov
The Office of Public Affairs includes:
- Office of Media Relations
- Email: press@epa.gov
- Office of Internal Communications
- Email: internalcomms@epa.gov
- Office of Multimedia
Jini Ryan, Director- Phone: 202-564-0175
- Email: ryan.jini@epa.gov
- Office of Web Communications
Chuck Widener, Director- Phone: 202-564-8403
- Email: widener.charles@epa.gov