diff --git a/stdlib/InteractiveUtils/src/InteractiveUtils.jl b/stdlib/InteractiveUtils/src/InteractiveUtils.jl
index 0c82391ead01e..6cb34d906bf8a 100644
--- a/stdlib/InteractiveUtils/src/InteractiveUtils.jl
+++ b/stdlib/InteractiveUtils/src/InteractiveUtils.jl
@@ -104,17 +104,14 @@ function versioninfo(io::IO=stdout; verbose::Bool=false, packages::Bool=false)
     println(io, "  LIBM: ",Base.libm_name)
     println(io, "  LLVM: libLLVM-",Base.libllvm_version," (", Sys.JIT, ", ", Sys.CPU_NAME, ")")
 
-    println(io, "Environment:")
-    for (k,v) in ENV
-        if occursin(r"JULIA", String(k))
-            println(io, "  $(k) = $(v)")
-        end
-    end
-    if verbose
-        for (k,v) in ENV
-            if occursin(r"PATH|FLAG|^TERM$|HOME", String(k))
-                println(io, "  $(k) = $(v)")
-            end
+    env_strs = [String[ "  $(k) = $(v)" for (k,v) in ENV if occursin(r"JULIA", k)];
+                (verbose ?
+                 String[ "  $(k) = $(v)" for (k,v) in ENV if occursin(r"PATH|FLAG|^TERM$|HOME", k)] :
+                 [])]
+    if !isempty(env_strs)
+        println(io, "Environment:")
+        for str in env_strs
+            println(io, str)
         end
     end
     if packages || verbose
diff --git a/stdlib/InteractiveUtils/test/runtests.jl b/stdlib/InteractiveUtils/test/runtests.jl
index d5f4f139435e4..73bcc603de1c0 100644
--- a/stdlib/InteractiveUtils/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/stdlib/InteractiveUtils/test/runtests.jl
@@ -188,6 +188,12 @@ end
             @test isempty(readdir(dir))
         end
     end
+    let exename = `$(Base.julia_cmd()) --startup-file=no`
+        @test !occursin("Environment:", read(setenv(`$exename -e 'using InteractiveUtils; versioninfo()'`,
+                                                    String[]), String))
+        @test  occursin("Environment:", read(setenv(`$exename -e 'using InteractiveUtils; versioninfo()'`,
+                                                    String["JULIA_CPU_CORES=1"]), String))
+    end
 end
 
 const curmod = @__MODULE__