Richard Parrish has been the Chief Executive Officer of Impact Environmental, and its Senior Consulting Geologist since he founded the firm in 1989. He has over 40 years of experience working as an environmental professional in the New York metropolitan area. He has shaped Impact Environmental into a full-service environmental remediation and waste management consulting firm operating in over a dozen states. Successfully taking on world-class projects, Mr. Parrish has skillfully led Impact Environmental in supporting and partnering with the largest construction and development companies in the world. Mr. Parrish’s experiences and skills have made him as fluent in the legal language of the industry, as he is in the technical language.

During his career with Impact Environmental he has overseen the performance of over 10,000 Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments, designed over 200 gasoline station release investigations and remedies, directly supervised the investigation and remediation of over a dozen listed Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites, navigated more than 100 clients through all phases of the Brownfield and Voluntary Cleanup Acts, and authored over 25 Beneficial Use Determinations for the recycling of contaminated media.

His recent professional achievements have led to the development of a Class B Recycling Center in Lyndhurst, NJ taking in material from many of the major capital construction projects all over the region. Mr. Parrish has worked tirelessly to navigate the completion of Brownfield Industrial Sites to meet full government compliance and community participation plans. He also has permitted over 10 solid waste recycling facilities located in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Indiana to accept contaminated media for recycling. These include the Former General Motors site in Linden, New Jersey, the former Hudson County Landfill at Lincoln Park, the former Diamond Chemical Company Plant in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, the former Atlas Cement Quarry in Northampton, Pennsylvania, the former DuPont Chemical Works in East Chicago Indiana and the former New Jersey Zinc West smelting plant in Palmerton, Pennsylvania.

Mr. Parrish has been actively involved in the redevelopment of over 20,000,000 square feet of industrial and commercial real estate throughout the country.