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YMX Logistics has named Adam Buttgenbach, a PepsiCo fleet transformation executive with over 20 years of experience, as Vice President of Fleet Strategy & Loss Prevention. Buttgenbach will oversee fleet strategy and asset performance as the company expands nationwide.
XPRIZE released its Rainforest Impact Report, detailing how its five-year, $10 million competition accelerated biodiversity monitoring technologies, mobilized over $163 million in follow-on funding, and supported conservation efforts across more than 5 million hectares.
YMX Logistics announced that it has received the 2026 Supply Chain AI Excellence Award from FreightWaves, recognizing its outstanding achievements in operational AI integration. The award-winning technology is the digital twin decision engine in the Autonomous Yard Operating System (YOS), which leverages AI and predictive analytics to optimize yard operations.
Bergmeyer, a certified B Corp and Massachusetts public benefit corporation, announced the appointment of social and environmental impact leader Rebecca Kline Coffey as a new public benefit director on its board. Coffey will work as an independent benefit officer alongside the shareholder board to ensure the company advances its public benefit goals at the governance level.
Skip Shapiro Enterprises is an organic waste solutions provider founded in 2007, serving over 200 food and beverage processing facilities nationwide. The company recently launched the BeverageDestruction.com platform to strengthen compliance processing capabilities for beverage waste and is participating in the Linden renewable energy project, which upon completion will become the largest food waste-to-energy facility in the nation.
Microsoft is being sued over low-frequency noise from its data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, with claims for millions of dollars in damages. The case is one of several lawsuits this year targeting data center operations rather than construction, and legal experts predict such litigation will become an emerging field.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the California Energy Commission filed a lawsuit on Friday against the Trump administration and developer Golden State Wind, alleging that the 'buyback' agreement for the offshore wind lease has an 'extortionate' nature. The lease, located off Morro Bay on California's central coast, has a capacity of approximately 2 gigawatts. The developer had won it with a bid of $150.3 million and later agreed to cancel the lease for $120 million. The lawsuit states that the Trump administration first devalued the lease and then repurchased it at the original price, forcing the developer to accept. California had previously invested over $100 million to support offshore wind.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is planning to propose repealing Rule 14a-8, which governs the shareholder proposal process. The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) received the relevant proposal last Friday, which also involves amendments to Rule 14a-8 (proxy voting rules). This move continues SEC Chairman Paul Atkins' stated commitment to a "comprehensive review" of rules, following the SEC's earlier announcement that it would stop responding to companies' no-action letter requests. Investor advocacy groups oppose this, arguing that the repeal would undermine the long-standing balance between shareholders and companies.
Starbucks is currently facing both union boycotts and investor pressure: SOC Investment Group has submitted a proposal to split the CEO and board chairman positions, while Starbucks Workers United is calling for a consumer boycott. Although some tentative agreements were reached in previous negotiations, a final contract has not yet been secured.
A coalition of 16 Republican state attorneys general sent a letter on August 24 to KPMG, Ernst & Young, PwC, and Deloitte, alleging that these accounting firms may have violated audit independence obligations by participating in sustainability organizations and initiatives. The letter was jointly led by the attorneys general of Nebraska, Alaska, Florida, and Texas, and was copied to the Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the head of its enforcement division.