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OEI Newsroom
The Office of Environmental Information (OEI), headed by the Chief Information Officer, manages the life cycle of information to support our goal of protecting human health and the environment by:
- Collecting Information: OEI collects, manages, provides and safeguards your environmental information.
- Ensuring Quality Information: OEI ensures that the information we use is accurate, representative, and reliable
- Analyzing and Accessing Information: OEI offers tools for you to access and analyze environmental information
- Information Technology: OEI provides technology services and manages our Agency's IT investments
More detail is available on the OEI basic information page.
Read EPA's Information Access Strategy. The Information Access Strategy (PDF) (23pp, 813K, About PDF) is the culmination of a year-long effort to learn about the information needs and access preferences of EPA's many audiences for environmental information. During the National Dialogue on Access to Environmental Information EPA staff from across the Agency, key stakeholders, and the public participated in on-line "Jam" sessions and face-to-face meetings to express their own needs for improved information access. The resulting Access Strategy offers broad direction for improving access to information for EPA employees, our Federal, tribal, state and local partners, and public information audiences.
Getting information about EPA data and terminology just got easier. Try our new Web sites the System of Registries (SoR) and Data Standards. Submit online comments to help us make future releases even better.
The EPA Call Center receives Overall Excellence Award. The OEI-managed EPA Call Center won a Government Customer Support Award for Overall Excellence this month. This is the second consecutive year the EPA Call Center has been nominated and the first year as a finalist and winner. These awards recognize public sector help desks, contact centers, and other types of customer portals at all levels of Government.
EPA's Acting CIO, Linda Travers, joins other thought leaders in discussing how the Paperwork Reduction Act requires more updated language to account for the use of social media tools. 
Nextgov (April 21, 2009)
Acting Assistant Administrator Linda Travers discusses virtualization, desktop standardization, and other strategies OEI is taking to avoid costs. FedTech Magazine (February 17, 2009)
Myra Galbreath, Director for the Office of Technology Operations and Planning, discusses the benefits of server virtualization. Government Computer News (February 9, 2009)
Rick Martin, Acting Director for the Office of Information Analysis and Access, discusses the use of Web 2.0 social media tools in the federal government and the advantages they provide EPA managers. Federal Computer Week (February 6, 2009)
Lisa Schlosser, Director for the Office of Information Collection, discusses public participation and transparency at the EPA. Nextgov (January 29, 2009)
Myra Galbreath, Director for the Office of Technology Operations and Planning, former Assistant Administrator Molly O'Neill, and other leaders discuss "greening government" in a Federal Executive Forum session. Federal News Radio (February 21, 2008)
Acting Assistant Administrator Linda Travers and Myra Galbreath, Director for the Office of Technology Operations and Planning, discuss technology careers for women in government. Fedtech Magazine (February 8, 2008)
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