Wenning Environmental is a professional consulting firm dedicated to providing science-based and data-driven analysis of environmental challenges arising from chemical accidents and contamination, natural disasters, and investments in new technologies, products, and infrastructure.
Richard Wenning is an ecotoxicologist and environmental risk assessment specialist with 38 years of experience conducting and supervising environmental impact assessments and ecological and health risk assessments to characterize exposures and quantify the damage costs, injuries, and risks attributed to chemical contamination, industrial accidents, resource development projects, and natural disasters. He advises companies and governments on the interpretation of injuries and risks. He analyzes the environmental benefits relative to the risks and costs of deploying different site remediation strategies to mitigate contamination and restore air, ecological (including ecosystem services), groundwater, sediments, soil, and surface water resources. He advocates setting data-driven, science-based targets to achieve environmental goals for environmental restoration and cleanup of chemical pollution.
Mr. Wenning has leadership experience managing complex environmental investigations. He often works with multi-disciplinary teams of civil and environmental engineers, ecologists, health professionals, resource economists, and regulatory compliance, scientific, and public communication specialists. He has directed site-specific and regional-scale ecological investigations and monitoring studies in the U.S. and several other countries. Common to this work is a focus either, retrospectively, on environmental sources and the consequences of environmental accidents, legacy waste handling, and disposal activities or, prospectively, on the likely consequences of resource development projects.
He has participated in scientific review panels for trade, non-profit organizations, and government agencies, including the US EPA, US Army Corps of Engineers, and the European Commission. He has led seminars and given numerous technical presentations. He has published 100+ papers in the peer-reviewed scientific literature on various chemical and environmental risk issues. He is working with international experts to prepare the 2nd edition of a state-of-practice book on sediment quality assessment and management. In addition to consulting work, he served nearly 20 years, until 2022, as Editor-in-Chief of the SETAC peer-reviewed international science journal Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (IEAM).
Wenning Environmental LLC
Environmental Impact and Risk Assessment
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