…understand the SBA environmental due diligence required. National Small Business Week is coming up the week of May 20th. That week, many of the nation’s small businesses and entrepreneurs will gather in Washington DC for seminars, networking, awards, and recognition of those making an impact to the small business community.
SBA lenders and CDCs have large Standard Operating Procedures to deal with. I spend a lot of my time educating the SBA finance community about just one piece of that—the environmental investigation requirements of the SOPs. We want to make the environmental requirements a little bit more manageable with some good information and discussion. Each Fall the SBA updates the SOP for 7(A) and 504 loans, and this October Partner will be hosting a webinar to review the latest updates on SBA environmental due diligence.
Continue reading the GlobeSt blog here.

July 02, 2026
Adrienne Perez, an Environmental Due Diligence Consultant, joins as Technical Director for Agency Services in Partner Engineering and Science's environmental service line.

June 23, 2026
For commercial real estate owners, developers, and investors, the program offers a more flexible and efficient path to address contamination, particularly at lower-priority sites enrolled in voluntary cleanup.

June 24, 2026
Amid evolving and often uncertain federal regulations, state environmental agencies have increasingly taken the lead in developing policies to address PFAS.




