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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Media Relations/Public Affairs
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. (Room 2502 Ariel Rios North)
Washington, D.C. 20460
Web site: www.epa.gov/newsroom
Media contacts (HQ by topic and regional): www.epa.gov/newsroom/contact-us.htm
Office phone: 202-564-4355; fax: 202-501-1774, 1759

As of February 8, 2008:

Jessica L. Emond, Deputy Press Secretary
Office: 202-564-7814
Email: emond.jessica@epa.gov

Bob Zachariasiewicz, Acting Director, Office of Media Relations
Office: 202-564-1093
Email: zachariasiewicz.robert@epa.gov

TOPIC	PRESS OFFICER
Endocrine Disruptors; Environmental Information; Health Risk Assessments; Perchlorate; Research and Development; Science Advisor to Agency; TRI.	Suzanne Ackerman Office: 202-564-7819 Cell: 202-309-9496
Aging Initiatives; Airline Drinking Water; Arsenic; Budget; Chief Financial Officer; Children's Health; Civil Rights/Title VI; Drinking Water; Drinking Water Security; Energy Star; Environmental Education; Ground Water; Indian Programs; Lead; Nanotechnology; Oceans; PAH (coal tar-based sealant); Tribal Issues; Wastewater; Water; Watersheds; Wetlands.	Shakeba Carter-Jenkins Office: 202-564-6385 Cell:
Air Quality; Alternative Fuels; Asbestos; Asbestos, Naturally-Occurring; Biotechnology; Chemical Plant Security; Dioxin; Energy (general); Fuels; Grants/Contracts; Human Resources; Human Studies; Katrina; Mercury; Methyl Bromide; Mobile Sources; Off Road Vehicles; Open-Burn Buildings; PBDE (flame retardant); Pesticides; PFOA/C8; Radiation; Stationary Sources; Toxics; Vehicles; Yucca Mountain.	Dale Kemery Office: 202-564-7839 Cell: 301-938-6653
AFOs/CAFOs; Agriculture; Decommissioned Vessels; Federal Advisory Committees; FOIAs; General Counsel, Office of; Indoor Air; International Activities; Performance Track; Policy, Economics, and Innovation, Office of; Radon; Smart Growth; Voluntary programs (except Energy Star).	Dave Ryan Office: 202-564-7827 Cell: 703-593-1008
Brownfields; Climate Change; Compliance Assistance; Emergency Response; Enforcement; Enforcement Advisory; Environmental Justice; Federal Electronic Challenge (recycling); Hazardous Waste; Homeland Security; Recycling; Solid Waste; Stop-orders; Superfund; Underground Storage Tanks; Wastes	Roxanne Smith Office: 202-564-4455 Cell: 202-420-8650

Bonus Resources

Links to EPA regional press office pages. Regional contacts.
EPA News-related Listservs
- EPA Headquarters and Regional Press Releases: Online archives. Sign-up form to receive any combination of national and regional news releases via email. Sign-up to receive EPA news releases by RSS as they are issued (including all Headquarters news releases, selected news releases en Español, news releases by topic or news releases by issuing office).
- Main EPA Mailing Lists page where you can sign up for many of EPA's more than 90 listserves (e-mail news and discussion mailing lists), usually tailored to specific subject interests. Others include the Envirofacts, Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), and ECHO enforcement databases, all of which are goldmines for reporters. For a lot more, check out the Information Sources page.
- Signup page for Enforcement-related lists
- EPA Newsletters Page: Signup links for approximately 30 subject-oriented, mostly electronic newsletters. You'll also find archives of newsletters no longer being published.
- Comunicados En Español: Selected (not all) Headquarters news releases are available in Spanish.
Other EPA Information Useful to Reporters
- Events Calendar: Supposed to be a partial listing of public meetings, conferences and events with significant news value, held or sponsored by EPA. Doesn't seem to be used; no events listed.
Much more at the main EPA Newsroom page.

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