NACCO Industries, Inc.
−Removed: ® (“NACCO” or the “Company”) brings natural resources to life by delivering aggregates, minerals, reliable fuels and environmental solutions through its robust portfolio of NACCO Natural Resources ® businesses.
−Removed: The Company operates under three business segments:
+Added: ® (NACCO) and its wholly owned subsidiary, NACCO Natural Resources Corporation ® (NACCO Natural Resources and with NACCO collectively, the Company, we, our or us), bring natural resources to life by delivering aggregates, minerals, reliable fuels and environmental solutions through our robust portfolio of businesses.
+Added: We operate under three business segments:
Coal Mining, North American Mining ® (NAMining) and Minerals Management.
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The Minerals Management segment, which includes the Catapult Mineral Partners (Catapult) business, acquires and promotes the development of mineral interests.
−Removed: Mitigation Resources of North America ® (“Mitigation Resources”) provides stream and wetland mitigation solutions.
−Removed: The Company has items not directly attributable to a reportable segment that are not included in the reported financial results of the operating segment.
−Removed: These items primarily include administrative costs related to public company reporting requirements, including management and board compensation, and the financial results of Bellaire Corporation ("Bellaire"), Mitigation Resources and other developing businesses.
−Removed: Bellaire manages the Company’s long-term liabilities related to former Eastern U.S.
+Added: Mitigation Resources of North America ® (Mitigation Resources) provides stream and wetland mitigation solutions as well as comprehensive reclamation and restoration construction services.
+Added: In addition, ReGen Resources is pursuing opportunities to develop new power generation resources.
+Added: We have items not directly attributable to a reportable segment that are not included in the reported financial results of the operating segment.
+Added: These items primarily include administrative costs related to public company reporting requirements, including management and board compensation, and the financial results of Bellaire Corporation (Bellaire), Mitigation Resources, ReGen Resources and other developing businesses.
+Added: Bellaire manages our long-term liabilities related to former Eastern U.S.
underground mining activities.
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Business Strategy
−Removed: NACCO’s portfolio of businesses operates under the umbrella of NACCO Natural Resources.
−Removed: Management continues to view the long-term business outlook for NACCO positively.
−Removed: The Company is pursuing growth and diversification by strategically leveraging its core mining and natural resources management skills to build a strong portfolio of affiliated businesses.
−Removed: The Minerals Management segment, through the Company’s Catapult business unit, is focused on maximizing the value of existing mineral and royalty assets while it continues to pursue expansion of its asset base through acquisitions of additional mineral and royalty interests.
−Removed: The goal is to construct a high-quality diversified portfolio of oil and gas mineral and royalty interests in the United States that delivers near-term cash flow yields and long-term projected growth.
−Removed: The Company believes this business will provide unlevered after-tax returns on invested capital in the mid-teens as this business model matures.
−Removed: This business model can deliver higher average operating margins over the life of a reserve than traditional oil and gas companies that bear the cost of exploration, production and/or development as these costs are borne entirely by third-party exploration and development companies that lease the minerals.
−Removed: The Company is also considering additional investment opportunities, including non-operating working interests, as it continues to pursue diversification of revenue streams.
−Removed: NAMining continues to focus on profit improvement initiatives as well as growth through additional business development activities.
−Removed: NAMining is targeting potential customers who require a broad range of minerals and materials where it can leverage the Company’s core mining skills.
−Removed: The goal is to build NAMining into a leading provider of contract mining services for customers who produce a wide variety of minerals and materials.
−Removed: NAMining intends to be a substantial contributor to operating profit over time, including in its Sawtooth Mining subsidiary when production commences at Thacker Pass, which is targeting initial production in late 2026.
−Removed: Once production commences, Sawtooth Mining Company, LLC ("Sawtooth") will receive a management fee per metric ton of lithium delivered.
−Removed: The pace of achieving substantially improved results at NAMining will depend on the execution and successful implementation of profit improvement initiatives in the aggregates operations, and the mix and scale of new projects.
−Removed: A number of initiatives have already delivered improved financial results.
−Removed: Mitigation Resources continues to develop its business, which creates and sells stream and wetland mitigation credits, provides services to those engaged in permittee-responsible mitigation and provides mine reclamation and other environmental restoration services.
−Removed: This business offers an opportunity for growth and diversification in an industry where the Company has substantial knowledge and expertise and a strong reputation.
−Removed: Mitigation Resources is making strong progress toward its goal of becoming a top ten provider of stream and wetland mitigation services in the southeastern United States.
−Removed: The Company believes that Mitigation Resources can provide solid rates of return on capital employed as this business matures.
−Removed: The Company also continues to pursue activities which can strengthen the resiliency of its existing coal mining operations.
−Removed: The Company remains focused on managing coal production costs and maximizing efficiencies and operating capacity at mine locations to help customers with management fee contracts be more competitive.
−Removed: These activities benefit both customers and the Company's Coal Mining segment, as fuel cost is a significant driver for power plant dispatch.
+Added: NACCO’s portfolio of businesses operate under the umbrella of NACCO Natural Resources.
+Added: Management continues to view our long-term business outlook positively.
+Added: Our businesses provide critical inputs for electricity generation, construction and development, and the production of industrial minerals and chemicals.
+Added: Increasing demand for electricity, on-shoring and current federal policies are creating favorable macroeconomic trends within these industries.
+Added: Management is confident in our trajectory and business prospects as well as longer-term growth opportunities.
+Added: While we realize the coal mining industry continues to face challenges, we believe the current political environment may change the sentiment surrounding fossil fuel industry-related regulations.
+Added: These developments are expected to further support coal as an essential part of the energy mix in the United States for the foreseeable future.
+Added: NAMining is our primary platform for growth around mining activities.
+Added: With a focus on operational excellence, scalability and driving profitable growth, NAMining expects to improve operating margins as well as achieve additional growth through its ongoing business development activities.
+Added: New contracts and contract extensions are central to the business' organic growth strategy.
+Added: The goal is to continue NAMining's ongoing expansion as a leading provider of contract mining services for customers who produce a wide variety of minerals and materials, and we expect NAMining to be a substantial contributor to operating profit over time.
+Added: The Minerals Management segment, through our Catapult business, has constructed a high-quality, diversified portfolio of oil and gas mineral and royalty interests in the United States that is expected to deliver near-term cash flow yields and long-term growth.
+Added: As an owner of mineral and royalty interests, we are entitled to a portion of the revenues received from the production of oil, natural gas and associated natural gas liquids, typically net of post-production expenses and taxes.
+Added: We are not obligated to fund drilling and completion costs, lease operating expenses or plugging and abandonment costs at the end of a well’s productive life.
+Added: The current portfolio provides a strong foundation of well-positioned assets that are expected to continue to deliver solid financial results.
+Added: This business model can deliver higher average operating margins over the life of a reserve than traditional oil and gas companies that bear the full cost of exploration, production and/or development.
+Added: We intend to continue these activities, while at the same time evaluating investments in non-operated working interests that we believe can reliably increase cash flow and enhance overall returns.
+Added: As a non-operator, we seek to diversify our investment and operational risk through participation in oil and gas wells with multiple operators across multiple basins.
+Added: While the timing of returns could vary, we maintain a long-term perspective and believes the Minerals Management segment will provide unlevered after-tax returns on invested capital in the mid-teens as the business matures.
+Added: Mitigation Resources, which provides stream and wetland mitigation solutions as well as comprehensive reclamation and restoration construction services, continues to build on the substantial foundation it has established over the past several years.
+Added: Our Mitigation Resources business offers an opportunity for growth and diversification in an industry where we have a strong
+Added: reputation as well as substantial knowledge and expertise.
+Added: In addition, Mitigation Resources is providing ecological restoration services for abandoned surface mines and was named a designated provider of abandoned mine land restoration by the State of Texas.
+Added: Mitigation Resources is working to develop a protected habitat for toads in Texas, as well as pursuing additional environmental restoration projects.
+Added: We believe that Mitigation Resources can provide solid rates of return on capital employed as this business matures.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, we have 11 mitigation banks and other mitigation projects located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas.
+Added: We believe our businesses have competitive advantages that provide value to customers and continuing to invest in our businesses can create long-term value for stockholders.
+Added: We have strategically leveraged our core mining and natural resources management skills to build a robust portfolio of affiliated businesses and opportunities for additional growth remain strong.
+Added: Acquisitions of additional mineral interests and improvements in the outlook for Coal Mining segment customers, as well as new contracts at Mitigation Resources and NAMining and development of other business opportunities should be accretive to our longer-term outlook.
+Added: NACCO also continues to pursue activities which can strengthen the resiliency of our existing coal mining operations.
+Added: We remain focused on managing coal production costs and maximizing efficiencies and operating capacity at mine locations to help customers with management fee contracts be more competitive.
+Added: These activities benefit both customers and our Coal Mining segment, as fuel cost is a significant driver for power plant dispatch.
Increased power plant dispatch results in increased demand for coal by the Coal Mining segment's customers.
Fluctuating natural gas prices, weather and availability of renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, could affect the amount of electricity dispatched from coal-fired power plants.
−Removed: While the Company realizes the coal mining industry faces political and regulatory challenges and
−Removed: demand for coal is projected to decline over the longer-term, the Company believes coal should be an essential part of the energy mix in the United States for the foreseeable future.
−Removed: The Company continues to look for ways to create additional value by utilizing its core mining competencies around reclamation and permitting through the development of utility-scale solar projects.
−Removed: Reclaimed mining properties offer large tracts of land that could be well-suited for solar and other energy-related projects.
−Removed: These projects could be developed by the Company itself or through joint ventures that include partners with expertise in energy development projects.
−Removed: The Company is committed to maintaining a conservative capital structure as it continues to grow and diversify, while avoiding unnecessary risk.
−Removed: Strategic diversification is designed to generate cash that can be re-invested to strengthen and expand the businesses.
−Removed: The Company also continues to maintain the highest levels of customer service and operational excellence with an unwavering focus on safety and environmental stewardship.
+Added: We continue to look for ways to create additional value by utilizing our core mining competencies, which include reclamation and permitting.
+Added: NACCO established ReGen Resources to utilize these skills to address the rapidly increasing demand for additional power generation sources in the United States through development of energy-related projects that utilize multiple generation technologies, such as solar combined with gas-fired generation, primarily on reclaimed mining properties.
+Added: These projects could be developed by ReGen Resources directly or through joint ventures that include partners with expertise in energy development projects and their financing.
+Added: Current opportunities in development include solar arrays, solar-gas hybrid projects and carbon capture on reclaimed mine land in Mississippi and Texas, as well as early-stage review of projects in other states.
+Added: NACCO is committed to maintaining a conservative capital structure as it continues to grow and diversify, while avoiding unnecessary risk.
+Added: We believe strategic diversification will generate cash that can be re-invested to strengthen and expand our businesses.
+Added: We also continue to maintain the highest levels of customer service and operational excellence with an unwavering focus on safety and environmental stewardship.
Business Developments
−Removed: On December 18, 2023, Mississippi Lignite Mining Company ("MLMC") received a force majeure event notice from its customer related to an issue that began on December 15, 2023 and impacted one of two boilers at the Red Hills Power Plant.
−Removed: The notice did not provide a timeline for resolution of the issue.
−Removed: As of March 6, 2024, the impacted boiler is still not operational.
−Removed: The prolonged mechanical issue is expected to result in a reduction in customer demand and will have a significant impact on the Company's results of operations during 2024.
−Removed: The Company determined the anticipated reduction in customer demand caused by this issue was an indicator of potential impairment.
−Removed: The Company reviewed MLMC's long-lived assets for impairment as of December 31, 2023 and determined the carrying amount of its long-lived assets were not recoverable.
−Removed: As a result, the Company recorded a non-cash, long-lived asset impairment charge of $65.9 million in 2023.
−Removed: See Note 9 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K for further information on the impairment analysis.
−Removed: During 2023, Minerals Management, through Catapult, completed an acquisition of $36.7 million of mineral and royalty interests in the Texas portion of the Permian Basin.
−Removed: During 2022, Catapult acquired $11.4 million of mineral and royalty interests in the Texas portion of the Permian Basin and the Wyoming portion of the Powder River Basin as well as a small acquisition of mineral interests in the New Mexico portion of the Permian Basin.
−Removed: During December 2023, NAMining executed a 15-year contract to mine phosphate at a quarry in central Florida.
−Removed: Production is expected to commence in the first half of 2024 once relocation and commissioning of a dragline is complete.
−Removed: NAMining also amended and extended existing limestone contracts with two customers and expanded the scope of work with another customer.
+Added: Coal Mining Segment
+Added: During 2023, Mississippi Lignite Mining Company (MLMC) received notice from its customer related to a boiler issue at the Red Hills Power Plant that began on December 15, 2023.
+Added: We assessed MLMC's long-lived assets for impairment and recorded a $65.9 million impairment charge in 2023.
+Added: See Note 9 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K for further information on the long-lived asset impairment charge.
+Added: While this issue has been resolved, it resulted in a reduction in customer demand which had a significant impact on our 2024 results of operations.
+Added: We recognized income of $13.6 million in 2024 related to business interruption insurance recoveries that partially offset losses as a result of the boiler outage.
The Sabine Mining Company (Sabine) operates the Sabine Mine in Texas.
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Electric Power (AEP) company.
−Removed: As a result of the early retirement of the Pirkey Plant, Sabine ceased deliveries and final reclamation began on April 1, 2023.
+Added: As a result of the early retirement of the Pirkey Plant, Sabine ceased deliveries and commenced final reclamation on April 1, 2023.
Funding for mine reclamation is the responsibility of SWEPCO, and Sabine receives compensation for providing mine reclamation services.
Sabine will provide mine reclamation services through September 30, 2026.
−Removed: On October 1, 2026, SWEPCO will acquire all of the capital stock of Sabine and complete the remaining mine reclamation.
−Removed: The Falkirk Mining Company ("Falkirk") operates the Falkirk Mine in North Dakota.
−Removed: Falkirk is the sole supplier of lignite coal to the Coal Creek Station power plant.
−Removed: On May 2, 2022, Great River Energy ("GRE") completed the sale of Coal Creek Station and the adjacent high-voltage direct current transmission line to Rainbow Energy Center, LLC (“Rainbow Energy”) and its affiliates.
−Removed: The Coal Sales Agreement (“CSA”) between Falkirk and Rainbow Energy became effective upon the closing of the transaction.
−Removed: Falkirk continues to supply all coal requirements of Coal Creek Station and is paid a management fee per ton of coal delivered.
−Removed: To support the transfer to new ownership, Falkirk agreed to a reduction in the current per ton management fee from the effective date of the CSA through May 31, 2024.
−Removed: After May 31, 2024, the per ton management fee increases to a higher base in line with 2021 fee levels, and thereafter adjusts annually according to an index which tracks broad measures of U.S.
−Removed: Rainbow Energy is responsible for funding all mine operating costs, including mine reclamation, and directly or indirectly providing all of the capital required to operate the mine.
−Removed: The initial production period is expected to run through May 1, 2032, but the CSA may be extended or terminated early under certain circumstances.
−Removed: The Company recognized a gain of $30.9 million during 2022 as GRE paid the Company cash, transferred ownership of an office building, and conveyed membership units in Midwest AgEnergy Group, LLC (“MAG”), a North Dakota-based ethanol business as agreed to under the termination and release of claims agreement between Falkirk and GRE.
−Removed: Prior to receiving the membership units from GRE, the Company held a $5.0 million investment in MAG.
−Removed: On December 1, 2022, HLCP Ethanol Holdco, LLC (“HLCP”) completed its acquisition of MAG.
−Removed: Upon closing of the transaction, NACCO
−Removed: transferred its ownership interest in MAG to HLCP and received a cash payment of $18.6 million during 2022.
−Removed: The Company received additional payments totaling $3.6 million during 2023 in connection with a post-closing purchase price adjustment and the release of amounts held in escrow.
−Removed: During 2023, the Board of Directors of the Company approved the termination of the Combined Defined Benefit Plan for NACCO and its subsidiaries (the “Combined Plan”) and Combined Plan participants were offered lump-sum distributions as part of the termination process.
−Removed: As a result of the lump-sum distributions, the Company recognized a non-cash, pension settlement charge of $1.8 million.
−Removed: See Note 14 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K for further information on the Combined Plan.
−Removed: In December 2023, the Company entered into a power purchase agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (“TVA”) for the energy generated from a proposed 67.5 MW solar photovoltaic electric generation facility to be developed on reclaimed land at the Company’s Red Hills Mine.
−Removed: The development of this project is subject to the favorable completion of an environmental impact study under the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) and approval of an interconnection agreement with TVA.
−Removed: In addition, the Company will enter into an engineering, procurement and construction agreement related to development of the project.
−Removed: The estimated commercial operation date for this generation facility is 2027.
+Added: As of October 1, 2026, SWEPCO has an obligation to acquire all of the capital stock of Sabine and complete the remaining mine reclamation.
+Added: NAMining Segment
+Added: Sawtooth Mining, LLC (Sawtooth) will be the exclusive provider of comprehensive mining services for the Thacker Pass lithium project in Humboldt County, Nevada.
+Added: Thacker Pass is owned by a joint venture between Lithium Americas Corp.
+Added: LAC) and General Motors Holdings LLC.
+Added: Thacker Pass commenced construction in 2023 and is targeting initial production in 2027.
+Added: Sawtooth will be reimbursed for costs of mining, capital expenditures and mine closure and will recognize a contractually agreed upon production fee once the mine is operating.
+Added: In addition to providing comprehensive mining services,
+Added: Sawtooth is currently assisting with certain construction services and will transport clay tailings once lithium production commences.
+Added: During 2024 and 2023, NAMining amended and extended existing limestone contracts with two customers and expanded the scope of work with several other customers.
+Added: New contracts signed in 2024 are expected to be accretive to earnings starting in 2026.
+Added: Minerals Management Segment
+Added: During 2024 and 2023, Minerals Management invested a total of $19.1 million, including $15.7 million in the fourth quarter of
+Added: 2024, in Eiger, LLC (Eiger), which holds non-operated working interests in oil and natural gas assets in the Kansas and the Oklahoma portion of the Hugoton basin.
+Added: During 2023, Minerals Management acquired $36.7 million of mineral and royalty interests in the Texas portion of the Permian Basin.
+Added: In December 2023, we entered into a power purchase agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for the energy generated from a proposed 67.5 MW solar photovoltaic electric generation facility to be developed on reclaimed land at our Red Hills Mine.
+Added: The development of this project is subject to the favorable completion of an Environmental Assessment under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and approval of an interconnection agreement with TVA.
+Added: In addition, we entered into an engineering, procurement and construction agreement related to the interconnection of the project during 2025.
+Added: The estimated commercial operation date for this generation facility is late 2027.
Coal Mining Segment
−Removed: The Coal Mining segment, operating as North American Coal, LLC, operates surface coal mines under long-term contracts with power generation companies pursuant to a service-based business model.
+Added: The Coal Mining segment operates surface coal mines under long-term contracts with power generation companies pursuant to a service-based business model.
Coal is surface mined in North Dakota and Mississippi.
−Removed: Each mine is fully integrated with its customer's operations.
+Added: Each mine is fully integrated with our customer's operations.
As of December 31, 2024, the Coal Mining segment's operating coal mines were:
−Removed: The Coteau Properties Company (“Coteau”), Coyote Creek Mining Company, LLC (“Coyote Creek”), Falkirk and MLMC.
−Removed: Each of these mines supply lignite coal for power generation and delivers its coal production to an adjacent power plant or synfuels plant under a long-term supply contract.
−Removed: MLMC’s coal supply contract contains a take or pay provision but contains a force majeure provision that allows for the temporary suspension of the take or pay provision during the duration of certain specified events beyond the control of either party;
+Added: The Coteau Properties Company (Coteau), Coyote Creek Mining Company, LLC (Coyote Creek), The Falkirk Mining Company (Falkirk) and MLMC.
+Added: Each of these mines supply lignite coal for power generation and delivers our coal production to an adjacent power plant or synfuels plant under a long-term supply contract.
+Added: While MLMC’s coal supply contract contains a take or pay provision, the contract contains a force majeure provision that allows for the temporary suspension of the take or pay provision during the duration of certain specified events beyond the control of either party;
all other coal supply contracts are requirements contracts.
Certain coal supply contracts can be terminated early, which would result in a reduction to future earnings.
−Removed: The MLMC contract is the only operating coal contract in which the Company is responsible for all operating costs, capital requirements and final mine reclamation;
−Removed: therefore, MLMC is consolidated within NACCO’s financial statements.
−Removed: MLMC sells coal to its customer's Red Hills Power Plant at a contractually agreed-upon price which adjusts monthly, primarily based on changes in the level of established indices which reflect general U.S.
+Added: The MLMC contract is the only coal supply contract in which we are responsible for all operating costs, capital requirements and final mine reclamation;
+Added: therefore, MLMC is consolidated within our financial statements.
+Added: MLMC sells coal to its customer at a contractually agreed-upon price which adjusts monthly, primarily based on changes in the level of established indices which reflect general U.S.
inflation rates.
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As diesel fuel is heavily weighted among the indices used to determine the coal sales price, fluctuations in diesel fuel prices can result in significant fluctuations in earnings at MLMC.
−Removed: The Red Hills Power Plant supplies electricity to TVA under a long-term power purchase agreement.
+Added: MLMC's customer operates the Red Hills Power Plant, which supplies electricity to TVA under a long-term power purchase agreement.
MLMC’s contract with its customer runs through April 1, 2032.
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Reduction in dispatch of the Red Hills Power Plant will result in reduced earnings at MLMC.
−Removed: During 2023, MLMC completed mining in its original mine area and began mining in a new mine area.
−Removed: The move to the new mine area resulted in increased costs during 2023.
−Removed: MLMC does not anticipate opening additional mine areas through the remaining contract term unless doing so would result in improved economic returns.
−Removed: On December 18, 2023, MLMC received a force majeure event notice from its customer related to an issue that began on December 15, 2023 and impacted one of two boilers at the Red Hills Power Plant.
−Removed: The notice did not provide a timeline for resolution of the issue.
−Removed: As of March 6, 2024, the impacted boiler is still not operational.
−Removed: The prolonged mechanical issue is expected to result in a reduction in customer demand and will have a significant impact on the Company's results of operations during 2024.
−Removed: The Company determined the anticipated reduction in customer demand caused by this issue was an indicator of potential impairment.
−Removed: The Company reviewed MLMC's long-lived assets for impairment as of December 31, 2023 and determined the carrying amount of its long-lived assets were not recoverable.
−Removed: As a result, the Company recorded a non-cash, long-lived asset impairment charge of $65.9 million in 2023.
−Removed: See Note 9 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K for further information on the impairment analysis.
−Removed: At Coteau, Coyote Creek and Falkirk, the Company is paid a management fee per ton of coal or heating unit (MMBtu) delivered.
+Added: At Coteau, Coyote Creek and Falkirk, we are paid a management fee per ton of coal or heating unit (MMBtu) delivered.
Each contract specifies the indices and mechanics by which fees change over time, generally in line with broad
measures of U.S.
−Removed: The customers are responsible for funding all mine operating costs, including final mine reclamation, and directly or indirectly providing all of the capital required to build and operate the mine.
+Added: Our customers are responsible for funding all mine operating costs, including final mine reclamation, and directly or indirectly providing all of the capital required to build and operate the mine.
This contract structure eliminates exposure to spot coal market price fluctuations while providing income and cash flow with minimal capital investment.
−Removed: Other than at Coyote Creek, debt financing provided by or supported by the customers is without recourse to the Company.
+Added: Other than at Coyote Creek, debt financing provided by or supported by the customers is without recourse to us.
See Note 16 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K for further discussion of Coyote Creek's guarantees.
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is not the primary beneficiary of the VIE as it does not exercise financial control;
−Removed: therefore, NACCO does not consolidate the
−Removed: results of these operations within its financial statements.
−Removed: Instead, these contracts are accounted for as equity method
−Removed: The income before income taxes associated with these VIEs is reported as Earnings of unconsolidated operations
−Removed: on the Consolidated Statements of Operations and the Company’s investment is reported on the line Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
−Removed: The mines that meet the definition of a VIE are referred to collectively as the “Unconsolidated Subsidiaries.” For tax purposes, the Unconsolidated Subsidiaries are included within the NACCO consolidated U.S.
−Removed: therefore, the Income tax provision line on the Consolidated Statements of Operations includes income taxes related to these entities.
+Added: therefore, we do not consolidate the results of these operations within our financial statements.
+Added: Instead, these contracts are accounted for as equity method investments.
+Added: The income before income taxes associated with these VIEs is reported as Earnings of unconsolidated operations on the Consolidated Statements of Operations and our investment is reported on the line Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
+Added: The mines that meet the definition of a VIE are referred to collectively as the Unconsolidated Subsidiaries.
+Added: For tax purposes, the Unconsolidated Subsidiaries are included within our consolidated U.S.
+Added: therefore, the Income tax benefit line on the Consolidated Statements of Operations includes income taxes related to these entities.
See Note 16 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K for further information on the Unconsolidated Subsidiaries.
−Removed: The Company performs contemporaneous reclamation activities at each mine in the normal course of operations.
−Removed: Under all of the Unconsolidated Subsidiaries’ contracts, the customer has the obligation to fund final mine reclamation activities.
+Added: We perform contemporaneous reclamation activities at each mine in the normal course of operations.
+Added: Under all of the Unconsolidated Subsidiaries’ contracts, our customer has the obligation to fund final mine reclamation activities.
Under certain contracts, the Unconsolidated Subsidiary holds the mine permit and is therefore responsible for final mine reclamation activities.
To the extent the Unconsolidated Subsidiary performs such final reclamation, it is compensated for providing those services in addition to receiving reimbursement from customers for costs incurred.
−Removed: Properties" on page 31 in this Form 10-K for discussion of the Company's mineral resources and mineral reserves.
+Added: Properties on page 29 in this Form 10-K for discussion of our mineral resources and mineral reserves.
NAMining Segment
The NAMining segment provides value-added contract mining and other services for producers of industrial minerals.
−Removed: The segment is a platform for the Company’s growth and diversification of mining activities outside of the thermal coal industry.
−Removed: NAMining provides contract mining services for independently owned mines and quarries, creating value for its customers by performing the mining aspects of its customers’ operations.
+Added: The segment is a platform for our growth and diversification of mining activities outside of the thermal coal industry.
+Added: NAMining provides contract mining services for independently owned mines and quarries, creating value for our customers by performing the mining aspects of our customers’ operations.
This allows customers to focus on their areas of expertise:
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As of December 31, 2024, NAMining operates in Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Virginia and Nebraska.
−Removed: In addition, Sawtooth Mining, LLC ("Sawtooth") provides mining design, consulting and will be the exclusive contract miner for the Thacker Pass lithium project in northern Nevada.
−Removed: Certain of the entities within the NAMining segment are VIEs and are accounted for under the equity method as Unconsolidated Subsidiaries.
−Removed: See Note 16 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K for further information on the Unconsolidated Subsidiaries.
+Added: In addition, Sawtooth will supply all of the lithium-bearing ore requirements for Thacker Pass, which is currently in the development stage with construction activities underway.
+Added: Sawtooth will be reimbursed for costs of mining, capital expenditures and mine closure and will recognize a contractually agreed upon production fee once the mine is operating.
+Added: In addition to providing comprehensive mining services, Sawtooth is currently assisting with certain construction services and will transport clay tailings once lithium production commences.
Minerals Management Segment
−Removed: The Minerals Management segment derives income primarily by leasing its royalty and mineral interests to third-party exploration and production companies, and, to a lesser extent, other mining companies, granting them the rights to explore, develop, mine, produce, market and sell gas, oil, and coal in exchange for royalty payments based on the lessees' sales of those minerals.
−Removed: The Minerals Management segment owns royalty interests, mineral interests, non-participating royalty interests and overriding royalty interests.
+Added: The Minerals Management segment derives income primarily by leasing our royalty and mineral interests to third-party exploration and production companies, and, to a lesser extent, other mining companies, granting them the rights to explore, develop, mine, produce, market and sell gas, oil, and coal in exchange for royalty payments based on the lessees' sales of those minerals.
+Added: The Minerals Management segment owns royalty interests, mineral interests, non-participating royalty interests and overriding royalty interests (collectively mineral and royalty interests).
• Royalty Interest.
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Typically, the resulting royalty interest is a cost-free percentage of production revenues for minerals extracted from the acreage.
−Removed: A holder of royalty interests is generally not responsible for capital expenditures or lease operating expenses, but royalty interests may be calculated net of post-production expenses, and typically has no environmental liability.
+Added: A holder of royalty interests is generally not responsible for capital expenditures or lease operating expenses, but royalty interests may be calculated net of post-production expenses, and typically have no environmental liability.
Royalty interests leased to producers expire upon the expiration of the oil and gas lease and revert to the mineral owner.
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The holder of a mineral interest has the right to lease the minerals to an exploration and production company.
−Removed: Upon the execution of an oil and gas lease, the lessee (the
−Removed: exploration and production company) becomes the working interest owner and the lessor (the mineral interest owner) has a royalty interest.
+Added: Upon the execution of an oil and gas lease, the lessee (the exploration and production company) becomes the working interest owner and the lessor (the mineral interest owner) has a royalty interest.
• Non-Participating Royalty Interest (NPRIs).
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ORRIs are created by carving out the right to receive royalties from a working interest.
−Removed: Like royalty interests, ORRIs do not confer an obligation to make capital expenditures or pay for lease operating expenses and have limited environmental liability;
+Added: Like royalty interests, ORRIs do not confer an obligation to make capital expenditures or pay for lease
+Added: operating expenses and have limited environmental liability;
however, ORRIs may be calculated net of post-production expenses, depending on how the ORRI is structured.
ORRIs that are carved out of working interests are linked to the same underlying oil and gas lease that created the working interest, and therefore, such ORRIs are typically subject to expiration upon the expiration or termination of the oil and gas lease.
−Removed: The Company may own more than one type of mineral and royalty interest in the same tract of land.
−Removed: For example, where the Company owns an ORRI in a lease on the same tract of land in which it owns a mineral interest, the ORRI in that tract will relate to the same gross acres as the mineral interest in that tract.
−Removed: The Minerals Management segment will benefit from the continued development of its mineral properties without the need for investment of additional capital once mineral and royalty interests have been acquired.
+Added: We may own more than one type of mineral and royalty interest in the same tract of land.
+Added: For example, where we own an ORRI in a lease on the same tract of land in which we own a mineral interest, the ORRI in that tract will relate to the same gross acres as the mineral interest in that tract.
The Minerals Management segment does not currently have any material investments under which it would be required to bear the cost of exploration, production or development.
−Removed: Total consideration for the 2023 and 2022 acquisitions of mineral and royalty interests was $36.7 million and $11.9 million, respectively.
−Removed: The 2023 acquisition includes 43.4 thousand gross acres and 2.5 thousand net royalty acres.
−Removed: The 2022 acquisitions included 13.6 thousand gross acres and 880 net royalty acres.
−Removed: Total mineral and royalty interests include approximately 184.7 thousand gross acres and 63.3 thousand net royalty acres at December 31, 2023.
−Removed: Net royalty acres are calculated based on the Company’s ownership and royalty rate, normalized to a standard 1/8 th royalty lease, and assumes a 1/4 th royalty rate for unleased acres.
−Removed: The Company's acquisition criteria for building a blended portfolio of mineral and royalty interests includes (i) new wells anticipated to come online within one to two years of investment, (ii) areas with forecasted future development within five years after acquisition and (iii) existing producing wells further along the decline curve that will generate stable cash flow.
−Removed: In addition, acquisitions should extend the geographic footprint to diversify across multiple basins with a preliminary focus on the more oil-rich Permian basin and a secondary focus on other diversifying basins to increase regional exposure.
−Removed: While the current focus is on the acquisition of mineral and royalty interests, the Company would also consider investments in ORRIs, NPRIs or non-operating working interests under certain circumstances.
−Removed: The current acquisition strategy does not contemplate any near-term working interest investments in which the Company would act as the operator.
−Removed: The Company also manages legacy royalty and mineral interests located in Ohio (Utica and Marcellus shale natural gas), Louisiana (Haynesville shale and Cotton Valley formation natural gas), Texas (Cotton Valley and Austin Chalk formation natural gas), Mississippi (coal), Pennsylvania (coal, coalbed methane and Marcellus shale natural gas), Alabama (coal, coalbed methane and natural gas) and North Dakota (coal, oil and natural gas).
−Removed: The majority of the Company’s legacy reserves were acquired as part of its historical coal mining operations.
−Removed: Properties" on page 31 in this Form 10-K for discussion of the Company's proved reserves.
+Added: The Minerals Management segment will benefit from the continued development of our mineral properties without the need for investment of additional capital once mineral and royalty interests have been acquired as the capital costs or lease operating expenses are born entirely by the operators or working interest owners.
+Added: During 2024 and 2023, Minerals Management invested a total of $19.1 million, including $15.7 million in the fourth quarter of
+Added: 2024, in Eiger, which holds non-operated working interests in oil and natural gas assets in the Kansas and the Oklahoma portion of the Hugoton basin.
+Added: This entity meets the definition of a VIE.
+Added: NACCO is not the primary beneficiary of the VIE as it does not exercise financial control;
+Added: therefore, we do not consolidate the results of these operations within our financial statements.
+Added: Instead, this contract is accounted for as an equity method investment.
+Added: During 2024, we recorded $0.6 million, which represented our share of earnings, as Earnings of unconsolidated operations on the Consolidated Statements of Operations.
+Added: Our investment is reported on the line Equity method investment in Eiger, LLC in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
+Added: Due to a lag in Eiger's financial reporting, earnings or losses from this investment will be recorded on a one quarter lag.
+Added: Excluding the Eiger investment described above, total consideration for the acquisitions of mineral and royalty interests was $0.7 million and $36.7 million, in 2024 and 2023, respectively.
+Added: The 2024 acquisitions include 13.7 thousand gross acres and 0.6 thousand net royalty acres.
+Added: The 2023 acquisitions included 43.4 thousand gross acres and 2.5 thousand net royalty acres.
+Added: We also manage legacy royalty and mineral interests located in Ohio (Utica and Marcellus shale natural gas), Louisiana (Haynesville shale and Cotton Valley formation natural gas), Texas (Cotton Valley and Austin Chalk formation natural gas), Mississippi (coal), Pennsylvania (coal, coalbed methane and Marcellus shale natural gas), Alabama (coal, coalbed methane and natural gas) and North Dakota (coal, oil and natural gas).
+Added: The majority of our legacy reserves were acquired as part of our historical coal mining operations.
+Added: Total oil and gas mineral and royalty interests include approximately 198.4 thousand gross acres and 63.9 thousand net royalty acres at December 31, 2024.
+Added: Net royalty acres are calculated based on our ownership and royalty rate, normalized to a standard 1/8 th royalty lease, and assumes a 1/4 th royalty rate for unleased acres.
+Added: Properties on page 29 in this Form 10-K for discussion of our proved reserves.
The principal customers of the Coal Mining segment are electric utilities and an independent power provider.
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The pricing of oil, gas and coal sales is primarily determined by supply and demand in the marketplace and can fluctuate considerably.
−Removed: As a mineral owner, the Company has limited access to timely information, involvement, and
−Removed: operational control over the volumes of oil, gas and coal produced and sold and the terms and conditions on which such volumes are marketed and sold.
−Removed: In 2023 and 2022, two customers individually accounted for more than 10% of consolidated revenues.
−Removed: The following represents the revenue attributable to each of these entities as a percentage of consolidated revenues for those years:
+Added: As a mineral owner, we have limited access to timely information, involvement, and operational control over the volumes of oil, gas and coal produced and sold and the terms and conditions, including price, on which such volumes are marketed and sold.
+Added: In 2024 and 2023, three customers and two customers, respectively, accounted for more than 10% of consolidated revenue.
+Added: The following represents the revenue attributable to each of these entities as a percentage of consolidated revenue for those years:
Percentage of Consolidated Revenues
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NAMining customer 24 % 22 %
−Removed: The loss of either of these customers could have a material adverse effect on the results of operations attributable to the applicable segment and on the Company's consolidated results of operations.
+Added: NAMining customer 11 % 7 %
+Added: The loss of any of these customers could have a material adverse effect on the results of operations attributable to the applicable segment and on our consolidated results of operations.
Coteau, Coyote Creek, Falkirk and MLMC each have only one customer for which they extract and deliver coal.
−Removed: The Company's coal mines are directly adjacent to the customer’s property, with economical delivery methods that include conveyor belt delivery systems linked to the customer’s facilities or short-haul rail systems.
+Added: Our coal mines are directly adjacent to our customer’s property, with economical delivery methods that include conveyor belt delivery systems linked to the customer’s facilities or short-haul rail systems.
All of the mines in the Coal Mining segment are the most economical suppliers to each of their respective customers as a result of transportation advantages over competitors.
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In addition, it competes with subsidized sources of energy, primarily wind and solar.
−Removed: Among the factors that affect competition are the price and availability of oil and natural gas, environmental and related political considerations, the time and expenditures required to develop new energy sources, the cost of transportation, the cost of compliance with governmental regulations, the impact of federal and state energy policies, the impact of subsidies on pricing of renewable energy and the Company's customers' dispatch decisions, which may also take into account carbon dioxide emissions.
−Removed: The ability of the Coal Mining segment to maintain comparable levels of coal production at existing facilities and develop its reserves will depend upon the interaction of these factors.
+Added: Among the factors that affect competition are the price and availability of oil and natural gas, environmental and related political considerations, the time and expenditures required to develop new energy sources, the cost of transportation, the cost of compliance with governmental regulations, the impact of federal and state energy policies, the impact of subsidies on pricing of renewable energy and our customers' dispatch decisions, which may also take into account carbon dioxide emissions.
+Added: The ability of the Coal Mining segment to maintain comparable levels of coal production at existing facilities and develop our reserves will depend upon the interaction of these factors.
Coal-fired electricity generating units are chosen to run primarily based on operating costs, of which fuel costs account for the largest share.
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Fluctuations in natural gas prices and the availability of renewable energy sources, particularly wind, can contribute to changes in power plant dispatch and customer demand for coal.
−Removed: Over the longer term, the Company continues to believe that customer demand will remain pressured by regulations mandating or incentivizing the purchase of power from subsidized renewable energy sources, particularly wind and solar.
+Added: Over the longer term, we continue to believe that customer demand will remain pressured by regulations mandating or incentivizing the purchase of power from subsidized renewable energy sources, particularly wind and solar.
Business — Government Regulation on page 9 in this Form 10-K for further discussion.
Environmental, social and governance considerations can also have an impact on power plant dispatch and demand for coal.
−Removed: Based on industry information, the Company believes it was one of the ten largest coal producers in the U.S.
+Added: Based on industry information, we believe we were one of the ten largest coal producers in the U.S.
in 2024 based on total coal tons produced.
+Added: NACCO believes that we were the largest dragline operator in the U.S.
NAMining faces competition from producers of aggregates, lithium or other minerals that choose to self-perform mining operations and from other mining companies.
In the Minerals Management segment, the oil and gas industry is intensely competitive;
−Removed: the Company primarily competes with companies and investors for the acquisition of oil and gas properties, some of which have greater resources and may be able to pay more for productive oil and natural gas properties or to define, evaluate, bid for and purchase a greater number of properties than the Company’s financial resources permit.
+Added: we primarily compete with companies and investors for the acquisition of oil and gas properties, some of which have greater resources and may be able to pay more for productive oil and natural gas properties or to define, evaluate, bid for and purchase a greater number of properties than our financial resources permit.
Additionally, many of the Minerals Management segment's competitors are, or are affiliated with, operators that engage in the exploration and production of their oil and gas properties, which allows them to acquire larger assets that include operated properties.
−Removed: Larger or more integrated competitors may be able to absorb the burden of existing, and any changes to, federal, state and local laws and regulations more easily than the Company can, which would adversely affect its competitive position.
+Added: Larger or more integrated competitors may be able to absorb the burden of existing, and any changes to, federal, state and local laws and regulations more easily than we can, which would adversely affect our competitive position.
The integrated competitors may also have a better understanding of when minerals they acquire will be developed, as they are often the developer.
−Removed: The Minerals Management segment’s ability to acquire additional properties in the future will be dependent upon its ability to evaluate and select suitable properties and to consummate transactions in a highly competitive environment.
−Removed: Further, oil and natural gas compete with other forms of energy
−Removed: available to customers, primarily based on price.
−Removed: Changes in the availability or price of oil and natural gas or other forms of energy, as well as business conditions, conservation, legislation, regulations, and the ability to convert to alternate fuels and other forms of energy may affect the demand for oil and natural gas.
−Removed: The Company has experienced limited variability in its results due to the effect of seasonality;
−Removed: however, variations in coal demand can occur as a result of the timing and duration of planned or unplanned outages at customers' facilities.
+Added: The Minerals Management segment’s ability to acquire additional properties in the future will be dependent upon our ability to evaluate and select suitable properties and to consummate transactions in a highly competitive environment.
+Added: Further, oil and natural gas compete with other forms of energy available to customers, primarily based on price.
+Added: Changes in the availability or price of oil and natural gas or other forms of energy, as well as business
+Added: conditions, conservation, legislation, regulations, and the ability to convert to alternate fuels and other forms of energy may affect the demand for oil and natural gas.
+Added: We have experienced limited variability in our results due to the effect of seasonality;
+Added: however, variations in coal demand can occur as a result of the timing and duration of planned or unplanned outages at our customers' facilities.
Variations in coal demand can also occur as a result of changes in market prices of competing fuels such as natural gas, wind and solar power and demand for electricity, which can fluctuate based on changes in weather patterns.
+Added: In addition, demand for coal-fired power generation can increase due to unusually hot or cold weather as consumers use more air conditioning or heating, respectively.
+Added: Conversely, mild weather can result in weaker demand for coal-fired power generation.
The NAMining segment extracts a significant amount of the annual limestone produced in Florida.
−Removed: The Florida construction industry can be affected by the cyclicality of the economy, seasonal weather conditions and pandemics, all of which can result in variations in demand for aggregates.
+Added: The Florida construction industry can be affected by the cyclicality of the economy, seasonal weather conditions, significant weather events, and pandemics, all of which can result in variations in demand for aggregates.
In the Minerals Management segment, oil and natural gas wells have high initial production rates and follow a natural decline before settling into relatively stable, long-term production.
Decline rates can vary due to factors like well depth, well length, geology, formation pressure, and facility design.
−Removed: In addition to the natural production decline curve, royalty income can fluctuate favorably or unfavorably in response to a number of factors outside of the Company's control, including the number of wells being operated by third parties, fluctuations in commodity prices (primarily oil and natural gas), fluctuations in production rates associated with operator decisions, regulatory risks, the Company's lessees' willingness and ability to incur well-development and other operating costs, and changes in the availability and continuing development of infrastructure.
+Added: In addition to the natural production decline curve, royalty income can fluctuate favorably or unfavorably in response to a number of factors outside of our control, including the number of wells being operated by third parties, fluctuations in commodity prices (primarily oil and natural gas), fluctuations in production rates associated with operator decisions, regulatory risks, our lessees' willingness and ability to incur well-development and other operating costs, and changes in the availability and continuing development of infrastructure.
Weather conditions affect the demand for, and prices of, natural gas and can also delay drilling activities.
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Human Capital
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023, the Company and its subsidiaries had approximately 1,700 employees, including approximately 1,100 employees at the Company’s unconsolidated mining operations, none of which are represented by a collective bargaining agreement.
−Removed: NACCO believes it has good relations with its employees.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, we had approximately 1,700 employees, including approximately 1,100 employees at our unconsolidated mining operations, none of which are represented by a collective bargaining agreement.
+Added: NACCO believes we have good relations with our employees.
Market-Based Compensation:
−Removed: NACCO believes its employees are critical to its success and invests in its employees by offering a market-based competitive total rewards package that includes a combination of salaries and wages and a benefits package that promotes employee well-being across all aspects of their lives.
−Removed: The Company offers a 100% 401(k) matching contribution up to 5% of compensation and a generous profit-sharing contribution for all of our full-time and part-time employees.
−Removed: The Company provides employee wages that are competitive and consistent with employee positions, skill levels, experience, knowledge and geographic location.
+Added: We believe our employees are critical to our success and we invest in our employees by offering a market-based competitive total rewards package that includes a combination of salaries and wages and a benefits package that promotes employee well-being across all aspects of their lives.
+Added: We offer a 100% 401(k) matching contribution up to 5% of compensation, which is immediately vested.
+Added: Additionally, NACCO offers a generous profit-sharing contribution for all of our full-time and part-time employees.
+Added: We provide employee wages that are competitive and consistent with employee positions, skill levels, experience, knowledge and geographic location.
Benefits offered to employees include:
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• Life and AD&D insurance benefits;
+Added: • Identity protection benefits;
• Charitable donation matches;
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Employee Development:
−Removed: The Company recognizes that its culture and success is strengthened when employees are respected, motivated and engaged.
−Removed: The Company works to match employees with assignments that capitalize on the skills, talents and potential of each employee, and provides opportunities for professional growth.
−Removed: The Company believes in hiring, engaging, developing and promoting people who are fully able to meet the demands of each position, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status or disability.
−Removed: Employee safety in the workplace is one of the Company’s core values.
−Removed: The Company is committed to strict compliance with applicable laws and regulations regarding workplace safety and provides on-going safety training, education and communication.
−Removed: The National Mining Association ranks NACCO as an industry leader in safety, and the Company's incident rate is consistently below the national average for comparable mines, based on Mine Safety and Health Administration data.
−Removed: The Company has earned more than 100 safety awards at the state and national levels.
+Added: We recognize that our culture and success is strengthened when employees are respected, motivated and engaged.
+Added: We work to match employees with assignments that capitalize on the skills, talents and potential of each employee, and provides opportunities for professional growth.
+Added: NACCO believes training is a critical component of employee well-being and growth.
+Added: Training ranges from equipment-specific task training and enhanced safety procedures to strategic leadership and management training, ethics training and role-specific training.
+Added: Employees are encouraged to pursue continued professional development, skills training and other educational opportunities.
+Added: Qualified employees are eligible to participate in a tuition reimbursement program to advance their formal education.
+Added: We believe in hiring, engaging, developing and promoting people who are fully able to meet the demands of each position, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status or disability.
+Added: Employee safety in the workplace is one of our core values.
+Added: We are committed to strict compliance with applicable laws and regulations regarding workplace safety and provides on-going safety training, education and communication.
+Added: The National Mining Association ranks NACCO as an industry leader in safety, and our incident rate is consistently below the national average for comparable mines, based on Mine Safety and Health Administration data.
+Added: We have earned more than 100 safety awards at the state and national levels since the 1980s.
NACCO strives to have zero safety incidents or injuries.
−Removed: The Company's operations have onsite safety personnel who train employees in safe work practices, review safety-related incidents and recommend improvements when appropriate.
+Added: Our operations have onsite safety personnel who train employees in safe work practices, review safety-related incidents and recommend improvements when appropriate.
Hazards in the workplace are actively identified and management tracks incidents so remedial actions can be taken to improve workplace safety.
−Removed: The Company believes communication related to “near misses,” safety incidents and protocols is essential to continuously developing and maintaining best-practices related to safety and enables identification and correction of operational practices that might impair employee safety or health.
+Added: We believe communication related to near misses, safety incidents and protocols is essential to continuously developing and maintaining best-practices related to safety and enables identification and correction of operational practices that might impair employee safety or health.
+Added: Every employee is responsible and accountable for safety performance.
Company Ethics:
−Removed: The Company has processes in place for compliance with its Code of Corporate Conduct, Insider Trading Policy and Anti-Corruption Policy.
−Removed: All of the Company's Directors and employees annually complete certifications with respect to compliance with the Company's Code of Corporate Conduct.
−Removed: In addition, all employees of the Company are required to complete annual Code of Corporate Conduct training.
+Added: We have processes in place for compliance with our Code of Corporate Conduct, Insider Trading Policy and Anti-Corruption Policy.
+Added: All of our Directors and employees annually complete certifications with respect to compliance with our Code of Corporate Conduct.
+Added: In addition, all of our employees are required to complete annual Code of Corporate Conduct training.
The Code of Corporate Conduct, Insider Trading Policy and Anti-Corruption Policy require employees to comply with applicable laws and regulations, maintain high ethical standards and report situations of actual or potential noncompliance.
−Removed: The Company also maintains an ethics related hotline, managed by a third party, through which individuals can anonymously raise concerns or ask questions about business behavior.
+Added: All NACCO personnel are required to report without delay any conduct which they believe to be illegal or a violation of our policies.
+Added: The identity of any NACCO personnel making such a report is kept in strict confidence except as required by law, and we utilize a third-party hotline to ensure reports can be generated anonymously.
+Added: Retaliation in any form against an individual who exercises their right to make a complaint in good faith is strictly prohibited.
Community Engagement:
−Removed: The Company supports its local communities and is committed to helping them remain safe, healthy and resilient.
−Removed: The Company's past activities include corporate donations, volunteerism and education.
−Removed: Community engagement is encouraged and supported through the Company's matching gift program.
−Removed: The Company will match employee contributions up to $5,000 per employee if program criteria are met.
+Added: We value our local communities and provide support through volunteer activities, financial contributions and well-paying jobs.
+Added: NACCO believes in making long-term investments in the areas where we operate by supporting numerous charitable efforts, including educational, arts and community organizations.
+Added: Community engagement is encouraged and supported through our matching gift program.
+Added: We will match employee contributions up to $5,000 per employee if program criteria are met.
Please visit nacco.com/stewardship/ for the full text of certain NACCO stewardship policies.
Available Information
−Removed: The Company makes its annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and any amendments to those reports available through its website, www.nacco.com, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is electronically filed with, or furnished to, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
−Removed: The content of the Company's website is not incorporated by reference into this Form 10-K or in any other report or document filed with the SEC, and any reference to the Company's website is intended to be an inactive textual reference only.
−Removed: The SEC maintains an internet site at http://www.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding the Company and other issuers that file electronically with the SEC.
−Removed: Under Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act, the Company qualifies as a “smaller reporting company” because its public float as of the last business day of the Company’s most recently completed second quarter was less than $250 million.
−Removed: For as long as the Company remains a “smaller reporting company,” it may take advantage of certain exemptions from the SEC’s reporting requirements that are otherwise applicable to public companies that are not smaller reporting companies.
+Added: We make our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and any amendments to those reports available through our website, www.nacco.com, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is electronically filed with, or furnished to, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
+Added: The content of our website is not incorporated by reference into this Form 10-K or in any other report or document filed with the SEC, and any reference to our website is intended to be an inactive textual reference only.
+Added: The SEC maintains an internet site at http://www.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding us and other issuers that file electronically with the SEC.
+Added: Under Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act, we qualify as a smaller reporting company because our public float as of the last business day of our most recently completed second quarter was less than $250 million.
+Added: For as long as we remain a smaller reporting company, we may take advantage of certain exemptions from the SEC’s reporting requirements that are otherwise applicable to public companies that are not smaller reporting companies.
Government Regulation
−Removed: The Company's operations are subject to various federal, state and local laws and regulations on matters such as employee health and safety, and certain environmental laws and regulations relating to, among other matters, the reclamation and restoration of coal mining properties, air pollution, water pollution, the disposal of wastes and effects on groundwater.
−Removed: In addition, the electric power generation industry is subject to extensive regulation regarding the environmental impact of its power generation activities that could affect demand for coal from the Company's Coal Mining segment.
−Removed: Numerous governmental permits and approvals are required for coal mining operations.
−Removed: The Company's subsidiaries hold or will hold the necessary permits at all of its lignite coal mining operations.
−Removed: At the coal mining operations where the Company's subsidiaries hold the permits, the Company is required to prepare and present to federal, state or local governmental authorities data pertaining to the effect or impact that any proposed exploration for or production of coal may have upon the environment and public and employee health and safety.
−Removed: Some laws, as discussed below, place many requirements on the Company's operations and its customers' operations.
−Removed: Federal and state regulations require regular monitoring of the Company's operations to ensure compliance.
+Added: Our operations are subject to various federal, state and local laws and regulations on matters such as employee health and safety, and certain environmental laws and regulations relating to, among other matters, the reclamation and restoration of coal mining properties, air pollution, water pollution, the disposal of wastes and effects on groundwater.
+Added: In addition, the electric power generation industry is subject to extensive regulation regarding the environmental impact of its power generation activities that could affect demand for coal from our Coal Mining segment.
+Added: Numerous federal, state and local governmental permits and approvals are required for coal mining operations.
+Added: Our subsidiaries hold or will hold the necessary permits at all of our lignite coal mining operations.
+Added: At the coal mining operations where our subsidiaries hold the permits, we are required to prepare and present to federal, state or local governmental authorities data pertaining to the effect or impact that any proposed exploration for or production of coal may have upon the environment and public and employee health and safety.
Many aspects of the production, pricing and marketing of oil and natural gas are regulated by federal and state agencies.
−Removed: Legislation affecting the oil and natural gas industry is under constant review for amendment or expansion, which frequently
−Removed: increases the regulatory burden on affected members of the industry and could affect the results of the Company’s Minerals Management segment.
+Added: Legislation affecting the oil and natural gas industry is under constant review for amendment or expansion, which frequently increases the regulatory burden on affected members of the industry and could affect the results of Minerals Management segment.
Mine Health and Safety Laws
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Environmental Laws
−Removed: The Company's coal mining operations are subject to various federal environmental laws, as amended, including:
+Added: Our coal mining operations are subject to various federal environmental laws, as amended, including:
• the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA);
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Both federal and state inspectors regularly visit mines to enforce compliance.
−Removed: The Company has ongoing training, compliance and permitting programs to ensure compliance with such environmental laws.
+Added: We have ongoing training, compliance and permitting programs to ensure compliance with such environmental laws.
Changes in environmental laws and regulations occur frequently, and any changes that result in more stringent and costly pollution control or waste handling, storage, transport, disposal or cleanup requirements could materially adversely affect the Coal Mining segment.
+Added: The election of Donald Trump, paired with Republican control of Congress, is likely to have a significant and favorable impact on the regulatory environment, particularly for fossil fuels.
+Added: President Trump issued an Executive Order on January 20, 2025, "Unleashing American Energy," directing all federal executive agency heads to review all agency actions implicating energy reliability and affordability or potentially burdening the development of domestic energy resources.
+Added: It is not yet clear how existing regulations affecting existing fossil fuel assets will be reconsidered or repealed.
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
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The cost of obtaining surface mining permits can vary widely depending on the quantity and type of information that must be provided to obtain the permits.
−Removed: The Abandoned Mine Land Fund, which is provided for by SMCRA, imposes a fee on certain coal mining operations.
−Removed: The proceeds are intended to be used principally to reclaim mine lands closed prior to 1977.
−Removed: In addition, the Abandoned Mine Land Fund also makes transfers annually to the United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund (the “Fund”), which provides health care benefits to retired coal miners who are beneficiaries of the Fund.
−Removed: The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act reauthorized the Abandoned Mine Land fee at a reduced rate.
−Removed: The fee for lignite coal was reduced from $0.08 per ton to $0.064 per ton and for other surface-mined coal from $0.28 per ton to $0.224 per ton.
−Removed: These fees have been reauthorized until the end of fiscal year 2035.
SMCRA establishes operational, reclamation and closure standards for surface coal mines.
−Removed: The Company accrues for the costs of current mine disturbance and final mine closure, including the cost of treating mine water discharges, at mines where the Company's subsidiaries hold the mining permit.
+Added: We accrue for the costs of final mine closure, including the cost of treating mine water discharges, at mines where our subsidiaries hold the mining permit.
While these obligations are largely unfunded, they can require securitization through bonding, with the exception of the final mine closure costs for the Coyote Creek Mine, which are being funded throughout the production stage.
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Army Corps of Engineers and the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) have engaged in a series of rulemakings and other administrative actions under the CWA and other statutes that are directed at reducing the impact of coal mining operations on water bodies.
−Removed: The Company does not believe there is any significant risk to the Company's subsidiaries' ability to maintain its existing mining permits or its ability to acquire future mining permits for its mines.
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions
−Removed: In July 2019, the EPA finalized a rule that repealed the Clean Power Plan ("CPP") that had been finalized in 2015 and established new regulations addressing GHG emissions from existing coal-fueled electric generation units, referred to as the Affordable Clean Energy (“ACE”) rule.
−Removed: The ACE rule developed emission guidelines that states must use when developing plans to regulate GHG emissions from existing coal-fueled electric generating units (“EGUs”).
−Removed: In response to challenges brought by environmental groups and certain states, the U.S.
−Removed: Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the “D.C.
−Removed: Circuit Court”) vacated the ACE rule, including its repeal of the CPP, in January 2021 and remanded the rule to the EPA for further action.
−Removed: On June 30, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) issued an opinion reversing the D.C.
−Removed: Circuit Court's decision, and finding that the EPA exceeded its statutory authority when it adopted the CPP.
−Removed: On May 11, 2023, the EPA published a draft rule imposing limits on GHG emissions from existing coal and new natural-gas electric generating units, which could compel such facilities to install additional pollution controls or shut down ("CPP2").
−Removed: The proposed CPP2 includes guidelines for carbon dioxide ("CO2") emissions from existing EGUs with a proposed compliance
−Removed: date of January 1, 2030.
−Removed: For coal-fired steam EGUs that plan to operate past January 1, 2040, the EPA is proposing a best
−Removed: system of emissions reduction ("BSER") of carbon capture and sequestration/storage ("CCS") with 90 percent capture of CO2
−Removed: at the stack.
−Removed: For coal-fired steam EGUs that will permanently cease operations after December 31, 2031, but before January 1,
−Removed: 2040, the EPA is proposing a BSER of 40 percent natural gas co-firing on a heat input basis.
−Removed: Coal-fired steam EGUs that will permanently cease operations between December 31, 2031 and January 1, 2035, will be subject to an annual capacity factor
−Removed: limit, and for units that will permanently cease operations before January 1, 2032, the EPA is proposing a BSER of routine
−Removed: methods of operation and maintenance that maintain current emission rates.
−Removed: Each of the EGUs supplied by the Company would
−Removed: be subject to these proposed requirements.
−Removed: Additionally, the proposed CPP2 contains other actions, including revised new source performance standards for GHG
−Removed: emissions from new and reconstructed fossil fuel-fired steam EGUs that undertake a large modification.
−Removed: These new rules may
−Removed: raise the cost of fossil fuel generated energy, making coal-fired power plants less competitive, and/or result in early closure
−Removed: which could have an adverse impact on demand for coal and ultimately result in the early closure of the mines servicing these
−Removed: plants, including closure of the Company's coal mines.
−Removed: Any such closure of the Company's mines could have a material adverse
−Removed: effect on the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Clean Air Act
The process of burning coal can cause many compounds and impurities in the coal to be released into the air, including sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides (NOx), mercury, particulates and other matter.
−Removed: The CAA and the corresponding state laws that extensively regulate the emissions of materials into the air affect coal mining operations both directly and indirectly.
−Removed: Direct impacts on coal mining operations occur through CAA permitting requirements and/or emission control requirements relating to air contaminants, especially particulate matter.
+Added: Federal and state laws that extensively regulate the emissions of materials into the air affect coal mining operations both directly and indirectly.
+Added: Direct impacts on coal mining operations occur through permitting requirements and/or emission control requirements relating to air contaminants, especially particulate matter.
Indirect impacts on coal mining operations occur through regulation of the air emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury, particulate matter and other compounds emitted by coal-fired power plants.
−Removed: The EPA has promulgated or proposed regulations that impose tighter emission restrictions in a number of areas, some of which are currently subject to litigation.
−Removed: The general effect of tighter restrictions is to reduce demand for coal.
−Removed: Ongoing reduction in coal’s share of the capacity for power generation could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: In May 2024, the EPA published the final rules for GHG emissions and Mercury Air Toxics Standards (MATS) in the Federal Register.
+Added: The final MATS and GHG rules will require compliance as early as 2027 and 2032, respectively.
+Added: Previous efforts by the EPA were met with extensive litigation and there has been a similar response to the new GHG and MATS rules.
+Added: State coalitions have filed lawsuits challenging both of these rules.
+Added: Several other entities, including electric generators and industry groups, have joined the lawsuits.
+Added: In July 2024 and October 2024, stay motions for the GHG and MATS rules were denied by the U.S.
+Added: Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the D.C.
+Added: Circuit Court), respectively.
+Added: Following the D.C.
+Added: Circuit Court denial, emergency stay motions were filed for the GHG and MATS rules with the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS).
+Added: In October 2024, the SCOTUS denied the stay applications for the GHG and MATS rules.
+Added: The GHG and MATS cases continue through the normal procedures in the D.C.
+Added: Circuit Court without stays in place.
+Added: On February 19, 2025, the D.C.
+Added: Circuit granted an EPA motion to hold the GHG case in abeyance for 60 days while the new EPA evaluates its position on the GHG rule.
+Added: Similarly, on February 20, 2025, the D.C.
+Added: Circuit granted an EPA motion to hold the MATS case in abeyance and removing the case from the upcoming oral argument calendar while the new EPA evaluates its position on the MATS rule.
+Added: We cannot predict the full impact of the MATS and GHG rules on the operations of the coal-fired generation facilities operated by our customers;
+Added: however, if the rules go into effect, the additional compliance costs could have a material adverse effect on our Coal Mining segment.
+Added: The GHG standards are based on technologies such as carbon capture and sequestration/storage and natural gas co-firing.
+Added: The compliance deadline for existing coal-fired, steam generating electric generating units (EGUs) planning to install carbon capture and sequestration/storage technology has been extended to January 1, 2032 for plants that intend to operate beyond 2039.
+Added: If a coal-fired plant intends to close prior to 2032, no controls will be required and if a plant plans to close between 2032 and 2039, they must begin co-firing with natural gas by January 1, 2030.
+Added: The MATS rules finalize changes for the filterable particulate matter surrogate emission standard for non-mercury metal hazardous air pollutants for existing coal-fired EGUs, the filterable particulate matter emission standard compliance demonstration requirements, and the mercury emission standard for lignite-fired EGUs.
+Added: Review of the MATS rules indicate that the EPA significantly reduced the fine particulate matter emission standard for all existing coal-fired EGUs and will require continuous monitoring equipment to demonstrate compliance.
+Added: Furthermore, the EPA elected to remove the lignite subcategory for mercury limits and will require lignite-fired EGUs to meet the same standard as other types of coal.
+Added: The recent change in presidential administrations, recent executive actions, and the resulting changes at the EPA make it unclear whether the promulgated GHG or MATS Rules will be enforced, revised, or repealed.
+Added: The various parties are working through the legal and administrative processes and the actual outcome remains unknown at this time.
The CAA requires the EPA to review national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) every five years to determine whether revisions to current standards are appropriate.
In addition, states are required to submit to the EPA revisions to their state implementation plans (SIPs) that demonstrate the manner in which the states will attain NAAQS every time a NAAQS is issued or revised by the EPA.
−Removed: The EPA has adopted NAAQS for several pollutants, which continue to be reviewed periodically for revisions.
+Added: The EPA has adopted NAAQS for several pollutants, which continue to be reviewed periodically for
When the EPA adopts new, more stringent NAAQS for a pollutant, some states have to change their existing SIPs.
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Through this process over the last few years, the EPA has reduced the NAAQS for particulate matter, ozone and nitrogen oxides.
−Removed: The Company's coal mining operations and power generation customers may be directly affected when the revisions to the SIPs are made and incorporate new NAAQS for sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone and particulate matter.
+Added: Our coal mining operations and power generation customers may be directly affected when the revisions to the SIPs are made and incorporate new NAAQS for sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone and particulate matter.
In March 2019, the EPA published a final rule that retains the current primary (health-based) NAAQS for sulfur oxides (SOx) without revision.
−Removed: The current primary standard is set at a level of 75 parts per billion, as the 99th percentile of daily maximum 1-hour sulfur dioxide concentrations, averaged over 3 years.
−Removed: On January 6, 2023, the EPA proposed to lower the level of the particulate matter.
−Removed: If enacted as proposed, this rule would require fossil fuel generating units to install additional
−Removed: emission reducing technologies, which will ultimately increase the cost of fossil fuel generated energy or cause potential EGU retirements.
+Added: On May 6, 2024, the EPA lowered the level for particulate matter by 25%.
+Added: States are required to update their state implementation plans by February 2027.
+Added: The rule is currently being challenged at the D.C.
+Added: Circuit by a coalition of states led by Kentucky and West Virginia.
+Added: Oral argument was held at the D.C.
+Added: Circuit on December 16, 2024.
In 2011, the EPA finalized the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) to address interstate transport of pollutants.
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The Interim FIP maintains the state emissions budgets, unit level allowance allocation provisions, and banked allowance holdings reflecting the status quo for the power plants in these states under the Group 2 trading program.
−Removed: In December 2023, the SCOTUS agreed to hear a challenge to the FIP.
−Removed: The case was heard in February 2024 and will be decided later in the year.
+Added: In June 2024, the SCOTUS decided to stay the rule pending further review on the merits because the EPA's justifications were flawed.
+Added: The Ozone Transport Rule was premised on its applicability to 23 states, but litigation resulted in the removal of 12 of those states that accounted for over 70 percent of the emissions the EPA had planned to address.
+Added: The EPA purported to select control measures that would maximize cost effectiveness in achieving downwind ozone air quality improvements, but it did so based on an assumption that all 23 states would apply the uniform levels of controls required by the FIP.
+Added: The case was remanded to the D.C.
+Added: Circuit where the parties fully briefed the case.
+Added: Subsequent to briefing, the EPA asked to partially remand the rule to "take a supplemental final action addressing the record deficiency preliminarily identified by the Supreme Court." The EPA finalized the supplemental response in December 2024.
+Added: On February 6, 2025, the EPA filed a motion requesting abeyance of litigation for 60 days to allow a transition to the new administration.
+Added: On February 21, 2025, the D.C.
+Added: Circuit denied the EPA's request to hold the litigation in abeyance and extending the briefing schedule through March 27, 2025.
Should the FIP be fully implemented in states where a stay has been issued, the rule could influence the closure of some coal-fired EGUs that have not installed selective catalytic reduction technologies, potentially including the EGU supplied by MLMC.
−Removed: The Company cannot predict the outcome of the legal challenges to the:
+Added: We cannot predict the outcome of the legal challenges to the:
(i) various state challenges;
(ii) the FIP promulgated on June 5, 2023;
−Removed: and (iii) the interim final rule promulgated on July 31, 2023 that seeks to address the judicial orders.
+Added: (iii) the interim final rule promulgated on July 31, 2023;
+Added: nor (iv) the supplemental response dated December 10, 2024 that seeks to address the judicial orders.
If the original FIP withstands legal challenge, it would increase the cost of operating the customer facility serviced by MLMC.
−Removed: Under the CAA, the EPA also adopts national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants.
−Removed: In December 2011, the EPA
−Removed: adopted a final rule called the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (“MATS”), which applies to new and existing coal-fired
−Removed: This rule requires mercury emission reductions in mercury-containing particulate matter.
−Removed: On March 6, 2023, the EPA concluded that it is appropriate and necessary to regulate mercury-containing particulate matter.
−Removed: In April 2023, the EPA drafted proposed revisions to MATS.
−Removed: These revisions would remove the mercury emission limit for lignite-fired EGUs and require particulate emission reductions for all coal-fired EGUs.
−Removed: If enacted as proposed, this rule could influence the closure of additional coal-fired EGUs, potentially including all of the EGUs supplied by the Company.
The EPA promulgated a regional haze program designed to protect and to improve visibility at and around Class I Areas, which are generally National Parks, National Wilderness Areas and International Parks.
−Removed: This program may restrict the construction of new coal-fired power plants, the operation of which may impair visibility at and around the Class I Areas.
−Removed: Additionally, the program requires certain existing coal-fired power plants to install additional control measures designed to limit haze-causing emissions, such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter.
−Removed: States were required to submit Regional Haze SIPs to the EPA in 2007;
−Removed: however, many states did not meet that deadline.
−Removed: In 2016, the EPA finalized revisions to the Regional Haze Rule which addresses requirements for the second planning period.
−Removed: State implementation of the EPA’s Regional Haze Rule could require Coyote Creek’s customers to incur significant new costs at the Coyote Station power plant, which could result in the premature closure of the power plant and the Coyote Creek mine.
+Added: State implementation of the EPA’s Regional Haze Rule could require our North Dakota customers to incur significant new costs at their respective power plants, which could result in the premature closure of such power plants and their associated mines.
The North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality (NDDEQ) finalized its state implementation plan and submitted it to the EPA for approval in August 2022.
−Removed: The NDDEQ determined that visibility progress was being made and did not require significant emissions controls at Coyote Station power plant.
−Removed: Notwithstanding NDDEQ’s determination, the EPA may require additional costly emission controls and it may not be economically feasible for Coyote Creek's customers to invest in such equipment, which could result in early retirement of Coyote Station and the Coyote Creek mine.
−Removed: Under the CAA, new and modified sources of air pollution must meet certain new source standards (the “NSR program”).
−Removed: Under the NSR program, before constructing a new stationary emission source or a modification of an existing major source, the source owner or operator must determine whether the new source will emit or the modification will increase air emissions above certain thresholds.
−Removed: Both emissions increases and decreases from a major modification at an existing source are to be considered during Step 1 of the two-step NSR applicability test which is designed to determine if there is a “significant
−Removed: emission increase”.
−Removed: Uncertainty around the NSR program rules could adversely impact demand for coal.
−Removed: Any additional new controls may have an adverse impact on the demand for coal, which may have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition or results of operations.
−Removed: The Company's power generation customers must incur substantial costs to control emissions to meet all of the CAA
−Removed: requirements, including the requirements under MATS and the EPA's regional haze program.
−Removed: These costs raise the price of
−Removed: coal-generated electricity, making coal-fired power less competitive with other sources of electricity, thereby reducing demand
−Removed: If the Company's customers cannot offset the cost to control certain regulated pollutant emissions by lowering costs or
−Removed: if the Company's customers elect to close coal-fired units, the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations
−Removed: could be materially adversely affected.
−Removed: Global climate change continues to attract considerable attention in the United States.
−Removed: Congress has considered climate change legislation aimed at reducing GHG emissions, particularly from coal combustion by power plants.
−Removed: Enactment of laws and passage of regulations regarding GHG emissions by the U.S.
−Removed: or States, or other actions to limit carbon dioxide emissions, such as opposition by environmental groups to expansion or modification of coal-fired power plants, could result in electric generators switching from coal to other fuel sources.
−Removed: Congress continues to consider a variety of proposals to reduce GHG emissions from the combustion of coal and other fuels.
−Removed: These proposals include emission taxes, emission reductions, including carbon tax and “cap-and-trade” programs, and mandates or incentives to generate electricity by using renewable energy sources, such as wind or solar power.
−Removed: Some states have established programs to reduce GHG emissions.
−Removed: Further, governmental agencies have been providing grants or other financial incentives to entities developing or selling alternative energy sources with lower levels of GHG emissions, which may lead to more competition from those entities.
−Removed: has not implemented the 1992 Framework Convention on Global Climate Change (“Kyoto Protocol”), which became effective for many countries on February 16, 2005.
−Removed: The Kyoto Protocol was intended to limit or reduce emissions of GHGs.
−Removed: has not ratified the emission targets of the Kyoto Protocol or any other GHG agreement.
−Removed: Though the U.S.
−Removed: has not accepted these international GHG limiting treaties, numerous lawsuits and regulatory actions have been undertaken by states and environmental groups to try to force controls on the emission of carbon dioxide;
−Removed: or to prevent the construction of new coal-fired power plants.
−Removed: As a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, in 2015, international negotiators finalized the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (“Paris Agreement”).
−Removed: Unlike the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Agreement has no binding GHG reduction mandates on signatories.
−Removed: Participating countries only submit a description of their intended GHG reductions, and provide periodic progress updates, with no penalties for not meeting their self-imposed targets.
−Removed: The Paris Agreement also includes language stating that developed countries will provide financial assistance to help developing countries meet their GHG targets and adapt to climate change, but there are no mandated contributions.
−Removed: The United States is a party to the Paris Agreement.
−Removed: The renegotiation and implementation of the Paris Agreement, or other international agreements, the regulations promulgated to date by the EPA with respect to GHG emissions or the adoption of new legislation or regulations to control GHG emissions, could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Significant public opposition has also been raised with respect to the proposed construction of certain new coal-fired EGUs due to the potential for increased air emissions.
−Removed: Such opposition, as well as any corporate or investor policies against coal-fired EGUs or requiring disclosures related to global climate change, could also reduce the demand for the Company's coal or marketability of NACCO stock.
−Removed: Further, policies limiting available financing for the development of new coal-fueled EGUs or coal mines or the retrofitting of existing EGUs could adversely impact the global demand for coal in the future.
−Removed: The potential impact on the Company of future laws, regulations or other policies or circumstances will depend upon the degree to which any such laws, regulations or other policies or circumstances force electricity generators to diminish their reliance on coal as a fuel source.
−Removed: In view of the significant uncertainty surrounding each of these factors, it is not possible for the Company to predict reasonably the impact that any such laws, regulations or other policies may have on the Company's business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: However, such impacts could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: The Company believes it has obtained all necessary permits under the CAA at all of its coal mining operations where it is responsible for permitting and is in compliance with such permits.
+Added: The NDDEQ determined that visibility progress was being made and did not require significant emissions controls at the North Dakota power plants.
+Added: In July 2024, the EPA issued a proposed partial denial of the state implementation plan.
+Added: We submitted comments to the EPA on the proposed partial denial during the third quarter of 2024 and have filed a petition for review with the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals.
+Added: The State of North Dakota, several of our customers, and others have also filed petitions for review.
+Added: On February 27, 2025, the EPA filed an unopposed motion to hold these consolidated cases in abeyance for 120 days while the new administration evaluates its position on the partial denial of the state implementation plan.
+Added: Notwithstanding NDDEQ’s determination, the EPA may require additional costly emission controls and it may not be
+Added: economically feasible for our North Dakota customers to invest in such equipment, which could result in early retirement of our customers' power plants and our associated mines.
+Added: Substantially all of the Coal Mining segment's profits are derived from long-term mining contracts.
+Added: These new rules may raise the cost of fossil fuel generated energy, making coal-fired power plants less competitive, and/or result in early closure of the coal-fired EGU's operated by our customers which could have an adverse impact on demand for coal and ultimately result in the early closure of the mines servicing these plants, including closure of our coal mines.
+Added: We cannot predict the full impact of the various GHG and CAA rules on the operations of the coal-fired EGUs operated by our customers and any early closure of our mines could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: The Trump administration is expected to direct the EPA to reconsider and revise or rescind the EPA’s rules regulating emissions from power plants, among other regulatory actions affecting power generation, and has already issued executive orders aimed at this outcome.
+Added: President Trump issued an Executive Order on January 20, 2025, "Unleashing American Energy," directing all federal executive agency heads to review all agency actions implicating energy reliability and affordability or potentially burdening the development of domestic energy resources.
+Added: It is not yet clear how existing regulations affecting existing fossil fuel assets will be reconsidered or repealed.
+Added: Although we anticipate the EPA’s review of such regulations likely will result in less stringent requirements, we cannot predict the outcome of any final EPA actions or court challenges to such final actions.
Clean Water Act
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discharge, including from coal mines.
−Removed: These federal and state requirements could require more costly water treatment and could
−Removed: materially adversely affect the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: The Company believes it has obtained all permits required under the CWA and corresponding state laws and is in compliance
−Removed: with such permits.
In many instances, mining operations require securing CWA authorization or a permit from the U.S.
−Removed: Corps of Engineers for operations in waters of the United States ("WOTUS.") The SCOTUS heard the Sackett vs.
−Removed: EPA case in October 2022, which considered whether certain wetlands constitute WOTUS.
−Removed: Prior to the SCOTUS issuing a decision, in January 2023, the EPA published a new rule that redefines WOTUS using an expansive significant nexus test.
−Removed: The new definition expanded the scope of federal jurisdiction over land and water features which could cause some of the Company's operations to incur additional costs to mitigate streams and wetlands.
−Removed: The new WOTUS definition was ultimately stayed in 24 states, including Louisiana, Mississippi and North Dakota.
−Removed: On May 25, 2023, the SCOTUS issued its Sackett vs.
−Removed: EPA ruling that defines WOTUS as “a relatively permanent body of water connected to traditional interstate navigable waters” with a “continuous surface connection with that water, making it difficult to determine where the ‘water’ ends and the ‘wetland’ begins.” The SCOTUS decision rejected the “significant nexus” test used by the EPA in its 2023 WOTUS rule.
−Removed: As a result of the Sackett decision, the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers authored a revised definition of WOTUS and promulgated a final rule that removed references to “significant nexus”.
−Removed: The new rule does not go into effect in states
−Removed: where a stay had been issued for the previous rule, including North Dakota, Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
−Removed: In these states,
−Removed: the legal challenge to the rule will resume.
−Removed: In the meantime, securing CWA permits may be more challenging since the agencies
−Removed: in the states where a stay has been issued have less guidance to rely on to determine whether certain features are considered
+Added: Army Corps of Engineers for operations in waters of the United States (WOTUS.) On May 25, 2023, the SCOTUS issued its Sackett vs.
+Added: EPA ruling that defined WOTUS as “a relatively permanent body of water connected to traditional interstate navigable waters” with a “continuous surface connection with that water, making it difficult to determine where the ‘water’ ends and the ‘wetland’ begins.” As a result of the Sackett decision, the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers authored a revised definition of WOTUS and promulgated a final rule.
+Added: The new rule does not go into effect in states where a stay had been issued for the previous rule, including North Dakota, Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
+Added: In these states, the legal challenges to this rule have resumed.
+Added: In the meantime, securing CWA permits may be more challenging since the agencies in the states where a stay has been issued have less guidance to rely on to determine whether certain features are considered WOTUS.
+Added: To the extent the implementation of the final rule, results of the litigation, or any further action expands the scope of jurisdiction, it may impose greater compliance costs or operational requirements on our coal mining operations.
Bellaire is treating mine water drainage from coal refuse piles associated with former underground coal mines in Ohio and Pennsylvania and is treating mine water from a former underground coal mine in Pennsylvania.
Bellaire anticipates that it will need to continue these activities indefinitely.
−Removed: Bellaire was notified by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection during 2004 that in order to obtain renewal of a permit, Bellaire would be required to establish a mine water treatment trust.
+Added: In 2004, Bellaire was notified by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection that it was required to establish a mine water treatment trust to serve as a long-term funding mechanism related to this obligation.
See Note 7 and Note 9 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K for further information on Bellaire.
+Added: These federal and state requirements could require more costly water treatment and could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
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The EPA also established alternative deadlines to cease receipt of waste to include new site-specific alternatives due to lack of disposal capacity with a deadline to initiate closure and a new site-specific alternative due to permanent cessation of coal-fired boilers with deadlines to complete closure.
−Removed: These rules may raise the cost for CCR disposal at coal-fired power plants, making them less competitive, and/or result in early closure which could have an adverse impact on demand for coal and ultimately result in the early closure of the mines servicing these plants, including closure of the Company's mines.
−Removed: Any such closure of the Company's mines could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: In compliance with these regulations, the owner of the Coal Creek Station power plant, Falkirk’s customer, submitted a CCR Part B application to the EPA in 2020 asserting a unit complied with the CCR rules.
+Added: In May 2023, the EPA published proposed regulations that would impose federal regulatory requirements for previously
+Added: exempt inactive CCR surface impoundments at inactive facilities (legacy CCR surface impoundments).
+Added: In May 2024, the EPA published a final rule amending CCR regulations which introduces new requirements for the management of coal ash at active coal-fired power plants and inactive coal-fired power plants with a legacy surface impoundment.
+Added: The regulations impose new requirements including groundwater monitoring, closure standards, post-closure care obligations, and potential remediation activities.
+Added: These rules may raise the cost for CCR disposal at coal-fired power plants, making them less competitive, and/or result in early closure which could have an adverse impact on demand for coal and ultimately result in the early closure of the mines servicing these plants, including closure of our mines.
+Added: Any such closure of our mines could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: In compliance with these regulations, Falkirk's customer, the owner of the Coal Creek Station power plant, submitted a CCR Part B application to the EPA in 2020 asserting a unit complied with the CCR rules.
In the first quarter of 2023, the EPA proposed to deny the owner’s application.
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Any temporary unit shut down could result in a temporary suspension of operations at Coal Creek Station.
−Removed: To minimize any impact to operations, Coal Creek Station is moving forward with plans to dry CCR materials produced by the plant, reducing the need to utilize the lined area in question.
+Added: To minimize any impact to operations, Coal Creek Station continues to work with the EPA and is moving forward with plans to dry CCR materials produced by the plant, reducing the need to utilize the lined area in question.
Falkirk is the sole supplier of lignite coal to Coal Creek Station.
−Removed: Any suspension of operations at Coal Creek Station would eliminate the need for lignite coal during the
−Removed: suspension period.
−Removed: Any such suspension of operations at Coal Creek Station or any of the power plants supplied by the
−Removed: Company's mines could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: In May 2023, the EPA published proposed regulations that would impose federal regulatory requirements for previously
−Removed: exempt inactive CCR surface impoundments at inactive facilities (legacy CCR surface impoundments).
−Removed: If finalized as proposed,
−Removed: it could increase the regulatory cost of compliance for the Company's customers thereby increasing the cost of power which
−Removed: could materially adversely affect the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: The EPA rule exempts CCRs beneficially used at mine sites and reserves any regulation thereof to OSMRE.
−Removed: OSMRE suspended all rulemaking actions on CCRs, but could re-initiate them in the future.
−Removed: The outcome of these rulemakings, and any subsequent actions by the EPA and OSMRE, could impact those Company operations that beneficially use CCRs.
−Removed: If the Company were unable to beneficially use CCRs, its revenues for handling CCRs from its customers may decrease and its costs may increase due to the purchase of alternative materials for beneficial uses.
+Added: Any suspension of operations at Coal Creek Station would eliminate the need for lignite coal during the suspension period.
+Added: Any such suspension of operations at Coal Creek Station or any of the power plants supplied by our mines could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
National Environmental Policy Act
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these types of assessments by federal agencies.
−Removed: When a NEPA action is required, the Company provides the required
+Added: When a NEPA action is required, we provide the required
information to the appropriate federal agency to enable it to complete the required study.
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issued interim guidance that instructs federal agencies to quantify GHG emissions and use the social cost of greenhouse gases to calculate a monetary metric associated with the proposed actions’ climate effects.
−Removed: The NEPA and interim guidance could adversely affect the Company’s ability to secure necessary permits.
−Removed: On April 21, 2023, President Biden signed a new executive order focused on incorporating environmental justice considerations
−Removed: into federal decision-making.
−Removed: The executive order created a new White House Office of Environmental Justice, and directed all federal agencies to make environmental justice a central part of each agency’s mission by publishing an environmental justice
−Removed: strategic plan for the agency.
−Removed: Additionally, the order requires agencies conducting NEPA reviews to assess direct, indirect and
−Removed: cumulative impacts on environmental justice communities in their analyses, to consider best available science and information
−Removed: on disparate health impacts related to exposure to environmental hazards and provide opportunities for meaningful engagement
−Removed: with environmental justice communities during the environmental review process.
−Removed: It largely remains to be seen how federal agencies will undertake to comply with these new requirements addressing environmental justice considerations, but the development and application of the new requirements may result in permit uncertainty and delays for activities that require federal approvals.
+Added: The NEPA and interim guidance could adversely affect our ability to secure necessary permits.
On June 3, 2023, President Biden signed the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 into law, which included certain provisions
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environmental assessments.
−Removed: It remains to be seen how the changes enacted by Congress will impact site level NEPA analysis.
+Added: In April 2024, the CEQ finalized the revised NEPA rules.
+Added: On February 16, 2025, CEQ issued a notice that it intends to rescind all CEQ NEPA implementing regulations.
+Added: These actions have raised significant questions regarding how CEQ’s NEPA regulations and agency-specific NEPA procedures will be interpreted and enforced going forward.
+Added: We are unable to predict what impact the new CEQ guidance will have on our ability to obtain governmental permits.
+Added: Federal Coal Leasing
+Added: We enter into leases of Federally owned coal for a small portion of the coal mined at certain of our North Dakota mines.
+Added: In July 2024, the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) published its North Dakota Proposed Resource Management Plan (RMP), which provided that no Federal coal which lies more than four miles away from a currently existing surface coal mining permit will be available for future leasing in North Dakota.
+Added: In September 2024, the Company, along with other stakeholders, including the Governor of North Dakota, filed protests against the RMP.
+Added: The BLM denied the protests and published the final RMP in January 2025.
+Added: The State of North Dakota filed a challenge to the RMP in the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota on February 25, 2025.
+Added: We are currently evaluating a similar challenge.
+Added: If any such challenges are not successful, we may be required to alter our mine plans to avoid areas of Federal coal in the future.
Regulation of the Oil and Natural Gas Industry
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Legislation affecting the oil and natural gas industry is under constant review for amendment or expansion, frequently increasing the regulatory burden.
−Removed: Also, numerous departments and agencies, both federal and state, are authorized by statute to issue rules and regulations that are binding on the oil and natural gas industry and its individual members, some of which carry substantial penalties for failure to comply.
−Removed: Although the regulatory burden on the oil and natural gas industry increases the cost of doing business, these burdens generally do not affect the Company any differently or to any greater or lesser extent than they affect other companies in the industry with similar assets.
+Added: Also, numerous departments and agencies, both federal and state, are authorized by statute to issue rules and regulations that are binding on the oil and natural gas industry, some of which carry substantial penalties for failure to comply.
+Added: Although the regulatory burden on the oil and natural gas industry increases the cost of doing business, these burdens generally do not affect us any differently or to any greater or lesser extent than they affect other companies in the industry with similar assets.
The availability, terms and cost of transportation significantly affect sales of oil and natural gas.
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Although oil and natural gas prices are currently unregulated, Congress historically has been active in the area of oil and natural gas regulation.
−Removed: The Company cannot predict whether new legislation to regulate oil and natural gas might be proposed, what proposals, if any, might be enacted by Congress or the various state legislatures, and what effect, if any, the proposals might have on the Minerals Management segment.
+Added: We cannot predict whether new legislation to regulate oil and natural gas might be proposed, what proposals, if any, might be enacted by Congress or the various state legislatures, and what effect, if any, the proposals might have on the Minerals Management segment.
Sales of crude oil, condensate and natural gas liquids (NGLs) are not currently regulated and are made at market prices.
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Oil and natural gas exploration, development and production operations are subject to stringent laws and regulations governing the discharge of materials into the environment or otherwise relating to protection of the environment or occupational health and safety.
−Removed: These laws and regulations have the potential to impact production on the Company’s mineral interests, which could materially adversely affect the Minerals Management segment.
+Added: These laws and regulations have the potential to impact production on our mineral interests, which could materially adversely affect the Minerals Management segment.
Numerous federal, state and local governmental agencies, such as the EPA, issue regulations that often require difficult and costly compliance measures that carry substantial administrative, civil and criminal penalties and may result in injunctive obligations for non-compliance.
These laws and regulations may require the acquisition of a permit before drilling commences, restrict the types, quantities and concentrations of various substances that can be released into the environment in connection with drilling and production activities, limit or prohibit construction or drilling activities on certain lands lying within wilderness, wetlands, ecologically sensitive and other protected areas, require action to prevent or remediate pollution from current or former operations, such as plugging abandoned wells or closing earthen pits, result in the suspension or revocation of necessary permits, licenses and authorizations, require that additional pollution controls be installed and impose substantial liabilities for pollution resulting from operations.
−Removed: The strict, joint and several liability nature of such laws and regulations could impose liability upon the operators on the Company’s mineral interests, regardless of fault.
+Added: The strict, joint and several liability nature of such laws and regulations could impose liability upon the operators on our mineral interests, regardless of fault.
Moreover, it is not uncommon for neighboring landowners and other third parties to file claims for personal injury and property damage allegedly caused by the release of hazardous substances, hydrocarbons or other waste products into the environment.
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Changes in environmental laws and regulations occur frequently, and any changes that result in more stringent and costly pollution control or waste handling, storage, transport, disposal or cleanup requirements could materially adversely affect the Minerals Management segment.
+Added: In May 2024, the EPA finalized a rule containing revisions and additions to the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) program rules (the Final Methane Rule).
+Added: The Final Methane Rule formally reinstates emission limitations on methane, a GHG emission, for existing and modified facilities in the oil and gas sector.
+Added: Specifically, the Final Methane Rule requires states to implement plans that meet or exceed federally established emission reduction guidelines for oil and natural gas facilities.
+Added: Several states and industry groups have filed suit before the D.C.
+Added: Circuit challenging the Final Methane Rule.
+Added: On October 4, 2024, the SCOTUS denied applications for an immediate stay of the Final Methane Rule pending review by the D.C.
+Added: Circuit Court of Appeals.
+Added: Though the final outcome is uncertain, the rule establishes standards of performance for sources that commence construction, modification or reconstruction after March 8, 2024, and establishes emissions guidelines that will inform state plans to establish standards for existing sources.
+Added: The Final Methane Rule could have a significant impact on the upstream and midstream oil and gas sectors.
+Added: In November 2024, the EPA announced a final rule to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector.
+Added: The rule requires payment of a Waste Emissions Charge (WEC) on waste emissions of methane from certain oil and gas facilities.
+Added: The Inflation Reduction Act-mandated fee would be triggered when companies report more than 25 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year to the EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program.
+Added: The fee begins at $900 per metric ton of methane exceeding that threshold in 2024 and increases over time.
+Added: A petition for review was filed in January 2025 by a coalition of Texas-led states and other industry groups.
+Added: The fee could have a significant impact on the upstream and midstream oil and gas sectors.
Drilling and Production
−Removed: The operations of the Company’s third-party lessees are subject to various types of regulation at the federal, state and local level.
−Removed: These types of regulation include requiring permits for the drilling of wells, drilling bonds and generating reports concerning operations.
−Removed: The states, and some counties and municipalities, in which the Company has mineral interests also regulate one or more of the following:
+Added: The operations of the Minerals Management segment’s third-party lessees and our equity method investee are subject to various types of regulation at the federal, state and local level.
+Added: These types of regulation include requiring permits for the drilling of
+Added: wells, drilling bonds and generating reports concerning operations.
+Added: The states, and some counties and municipalities, in which we have mineral interests also regulate one or more of the following:
• the location of wells;
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Some states allow forced pooling or integration of tracts to facilitate exploration while other states rely on voluntary pooling of lands and leases.
−Removed: In some instances, forced pooling or unitization may be implemented by third parties and may reduce the Company’s interest in the unitized properties.
+Added: In some instances, forced pooling or unitization may be implemented by third parties and may reduce our interest in the unitized properties.
In addition, state conservation laws establish maximum rates of production from oil and natural gas wells, generally prohibit the venting or flaring of natural gas and impose requirements regarding the ratability of production.
−Removed: These laws and regulations may limit the amount of oil and natural gas that the lessees of the Company’s mineral interests can produce from existing wells or limit the number of wells or the locations at which operators can drill.
+Added: These laws and regulations may limit the amount of oil and natural gas that the lessees of our mineral interests can produce from existing wells or limit the number of wells or the locations at which operators can drill.
Moreover, each state generally imposes a production or severance tax with respect to the production and sale of oil, natural gas and NGLs within its jurisdiction.
States do not regulate wellhead prices or engage in other similar direct regulation, but the effect of any future regulations could have a material effect on the Minerals Management segment.
−Removed: The effect of such future regulations may be to limit the amounts of oil and natural gas that may be produced from the Company’s mineral interests, negatively affect the economics of production from these wells or limit the number of locations operators can drill.
−Removed: Federal, state and local regulations provide detailed requirements for the abandonment of wells, closure or decommissioning of production facilities and pipelines and for site restoration in areas where the operators of the acreage underlying the Company's mineral and royalty interests operate.
+Added: The effect of such future regulations may be to limit the amounts of oil and natural gas that may be produced from our mineral interests, negatively affect the economics of production from these wells or limit the number of locations operators can drill.
+Added: Federal, state and local regulations provide detailed requirements for the abandonment of wells, closure or decommissioning of production facilities and pipelines and for site restoration in areas where the operators of the acreage underlying our mineral and royalty interests operate.
Army Corps of Engineers and many other state and local authorities also have regulations for plugging and abandonment, decommissioning and site restoration.
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Army Corps of Engineers does not require bonds or other financial assurances, some state agencies and municipalities do have such requirements.
+Added: On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued several executive orders that prioritized energy security, exploration and production on federal lands and processing of Liquefied Natural Gas export applications.
+Added: Implementation of these executive orders could positively impact domestic drilling and production of oil and natural gas.
Regulation of Hydraulic Fracturing
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Hydraulic fracturing generally is exempt from regulation under the UIC program, and the hydraulic fracturing process is typically regulated by state oil and gas commissions.
−Removed: However, in recent years efforts have been made to regulate hydraulic fracturing at the federal level.
−Removed: The Biden administration has also signaled the intent to stop hydraulic fracturing on federal land.
Several states, including Texas, have adopted, or are considering adopting, regulations that could restrict or prohibit hydraulic fracturing in certain circumstances and/or require the disclosure of the composition of hydraulic fracturing fluids.
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There has been increasing public controversy regarding hydraulic fracturing with regard to the use of fracturing fluids, impacts on drinking water supplies, use of water and the potential for impacts to surface water, groundwater and the environment generally.
−Removed: A number of lawsuits and enforcement actions have been initiated across the country implicating hydraulic fracturing practices.
+Added: A number of lawsuits and enforcement actions have been initiated across the country implicating hydraulic fracturing
If new laws or regulations that significantly restrict hydraulic fracturing are adopted, such laws could make it more difficult or costly to perform fracturing to stimulate production from tight formations as well as make it easier for third parties opposing the hydraulic fracturing process to initiate legal proceedings based on allegations that specific chemicals used in the fracturing process could adversely affect groundwater.
In addition, if hydraulic fracturing is further regulated at the federal or state level, fracturing activities could become subject to additional permitting and financial assurance requirements, more stringent construction specifications, increased monitoring, reporting and recordkeeping obligations, plugging and abandonment requirements and also to attendant permitting delays and potential increases in costs.
−Removed: Such legislative or regulatory changes could cause operators of the operation on the acreage underlying the Company’s mineral interests to incur substantial compliance costs, and compliance or the consequences of any failure to comply by operators could have a material adverse effect on the Minerals Management segment.
−Removed: In addition, hydraulic fracturing operations require the use of a significant amount of water, and the inability of the operators of the acreage underlying the Company’s mineral interests to locate sufficient amounts of water or dispose of or recycle water used in their drilling and production operations could adversely impact their operations.
+Added: Such legislative or regulatory changes could cause operators of the operation on the acreage underlying our mineral interests, including those held by our equity method investee, to incur substantial compliance costs, and compliance or the consequences of any failure to comply by operators could have a material adverse effect on the Minerals Management segment.
+Added: In addition, hydraulic fracturing operations require the use of a significant amount of water, and the inability of the operators of the acreage underlying our mineral interests to locate sufficient amounts of water or dispose of or recycle water used in their drilling and production operations could adversely impact their operations.
Moreover, new environmental initiatives and regulations could include restrictions on the ability to conduct certain operations such as hydraulic fracturing or disposal of waste, including, but not limited to, produced water, drilling fluids and other wastes associated with the development or production of natural gas.
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Such concerns also have resulted in stricter regulatory requirements in some jurisdictions relating to the location and operation of underground injection wells.
−Removed: Future orders or regulations addressing concerns about seismic activity from well injection could affect operations on the acreage underlying the Company’s mineral interests.
+Added: Future orders or regulations addressing concerns about seismic activity from well injection could affect operations on the acreage underlying our mineral interests or our equity method investment.
Endangered Species Act
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USFWS has not yet completed its review, but the potential remains for new species to be listed under the ESA.
−Removed: Some of the Company’s properties or mineral interests may be located in areas that are or may be designated as habitats for endangered or threatened
−Removed: species, and previously unprotected species may later be designated as threatened or endangered in areas where the Company holds interests.
+Added: Some of our properties or mineral interests may be located in areas that are or may be designated as habitats for endangered or threatened species, and previously unprotected species may later be designated as threatened or endangered in areas where we hold interests.
For example, recently, there have been renewed calls to review protections currently in place for the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard, whose habitat includes portions of the Permian Basin, and to reconsider listing the species under the ESA.
Likewise, there have been calls to review protections in place for the Greater Sage Grouse, which can be found across a large swath of the northwestern United States in oil and gas producing states.
−Removed: The listing of either of these species, or any others, in areas where the Company holds mineral interests could cause lessees to incur increased costs arising from species protection measures, delay the completion of exploration and production activities, and/or result in limitations on operating activities that could have an adverse impact the Minerals Management segment.
+Added: The listing of either of these species, or any others, in areas where we hold mineral interests could cause lessees to incur increased costs arising from species protection measures, delay the completion of exploration and production activities, and/or result in limitations on operating activities that could have an adverse impact the Minerals Management segment.
Natural Gas Sales and Transportation
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FERC has jurisdiction over the transportation and sale for resale of natural gas in interstate commerce by natural gas companies under the Natural Gas Act of 1938 (NGA) and the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978.
−Removed: Since 1978, various federal laws have been enacted which have resulted in the complete removal of all price and non-price controls for sales of domestic natural gas sold in “first sales.” Under the Energy Policy Act of 2005, FERC has substantial enforcement authority to prohibit the manipulation of natural gas markets and enforce its rules and orders, including the ability to assess substantial civil penalties.
+Added: Since 1978, various federal laws have been enacted which have resulted in the complete removal of all price and non-price controls for sales of domestic natural gas sold in first sales.
+Added: Under the Energy Policy Act of 2005, FERC has substantial enforcement authority to prohibit the manipulation of natural gas markets and enforce its rules and orders, including the ability to assess substantial civil penalties.
FERC also regulates interstate natural gas transportation rates and service conditions and establishes the terms under which operators may use interstate natural gas pipeline capacity, which affects the marketing of natural gas that operators produce, as well as the revenues operators receive for sales of natural gas and release of natural gas pipeline capacity.
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However, the natural gas industry historically has been very heavily regulated;
−Removed: therefore, the Company cannot guarantee that the less stringent regulatory approach currently pursued by FERC and Congress will continue indefinitely into the future nor can the Company determine what effect, if any, future regulatory changes might have on natural gas-related activities.
+Added: therefore, we cannot guarantee that the less stringent regulatory approach currently pursued by FERC and Congress will continue indefinitely into the future nor can we determine what effect, if any, future regulatory changes might have on natural gas-related activities.
Under FERC’s current regulatory regime, transmission services must be provided on an open-access, nondiscriminatory basis at cost-based rates or at market-based rates if the transportation market at issue is sufficiently competitive.
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The basis for intrastate oil pipeline regulation, and the degree of regulatory oversight and scrutiny given to intrastate oil pipeline rates, varies from state to state.
−Removed: Insofar as effective interstate and intrastate rates are equally applicable to all comparable shippers, the Company believes that the regulation of oil transportation rates will not affect its operations in any materially different way than such regulation will affect the operations of competitors.
+Added: Insofar as effective interstate and intrastate rates are equally applicable to all comparable shippers, we believe that the regulation of oil transportation rates will not affect our operations in any materially different way than such regulation will affect the operations of competitors.
Further, interstate and intrastate common carrier oil pipelines must provide service on a non-discriminatory basis.
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When oil pipelines operate at full capacity, access is governed by portioning provisions set forth in the pipelines’ published tariffs.
−Removed: Accordingly, the Company believes that access to oil pipeline transportation services generally will be available to its operators to the same extent as to the Company or its competitors.
+Added: Accordingly, we believe that access to oil pipeline transportation services generally will be available to our operators to the same extent as they are to our competitors.
State Regulation
States regulate the drilling for, and the production, gathering and sale of, oil and natural gas, including imposing severance taxes and requirements for obtaining drilling permits.
−Removed: For example, Texas currently imposes a 4.6% severance tax on the
−Removed: market value of oil production and a 7.5% severance tax on the market value of natural gas production.
States also regulate the method of developing new fields, the spacing and operation of wells and the prevention of waste of oil and natural gas resources.
States may regulate rates of production and may establish maximum daily production allowable from oil and natural gas wells based on market demand or resource conservation, or both.
−Removed: States do not regulate wellhead prices or engage in other similar direct economic regulation, but the Company cannot be certain that they will not do so in the future.
−Removed: The effect of these regulations may be to limit the amount of oil and natural gas that may be produced from wells drilled by third-party lessee's and to limit the number of wells or locations the Company's third-party lessee operators can drill.
+Added: States do not regulate wellhead prices or engage in other similar direct economic regulation, but we cannot be certain that they will not do so in the future.
+Added: The effect of these regulations may be to limit the amount of oil and natural gas that may be produced from wells and to limit the number of drilled wells or locations of our third-party lessee operators or of our equity method investment.
The petroleum industry is also subject to compliance with various other federal, state and local regulations and laws.
Some of those laws relate to resource conservation and equal employment opportunity.
−Removed: The Company does not believe that compliance with these laws will have a material adverse effect on its results of operations or financial condition.
+Added: We do not believe that compliance with these laws will have a material adverse effect on our results of operations or financial condition.
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
CERCLA and similar state laws create liabilities for the investigation and remediation of releases of hazardous substances into the environment and for damages to natural resources.
−Removed: The Company must also comply with reporting requirements under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act and the Toxic Substances Control Act.
−Removed: From time to time, the Company has been the subject of administrative proceedings, litigation and investigations relating to environmental matters.
+Added: We must also comply with reporting requirements under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act and the Toxic Substances Control Act.
+Added: From time to time, we have been the subject of administrative proceedings, litigation and investigations relating to environmental matters.
The extent of the liability and the cost of complying with environmental laws cannot be predicted with certainty due to many factors, including the lack of specific information available with respect to many sites, the potential for new or changed laws and regulations, the development of new remediation technologies and the uncertainty regarding the timing of work with respect to particular sites.
−Removed: As a result, the Company may incur material liabilities or costs related to environmental matters in the future, and such environmental liabilities or costs could materially and adversely affect the Company’s results of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: In addition, there can be no assurance that changes in laws or regulations would not affect the manner in which the Company is required to conduct its operations.
−Removed: Other Regulations
−Removed: The Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020 extended the production tax credit (“PTC”) under Section 45 of the Internal Revenue Code and the investment tax credit (“ITC”) under Section 48 of the Code.
−Removed: The PTC for wind was extended at the current phase-out level (60% of the otherwise allowable credits) for facilities where construction began in 2021.
−Removed: On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “Inflation Reduction Act”).
−Removed: The Inflation Reduction Act contains hundreds of billions of dollars in incentives for the development of renewable energy sources, clean hydrogen, clean fuels, electric vehicles and supporting infrastructure and carbon capture and sequestration, among other provisions.
−Removed: These incentives could further accelerate the transition of the U.S.
−Removed: economy away from the use of fossil fuels and impact demand for fossil fuels.
−Removed: The ultimate impact on fossil fuel demand and the Company is uncertain and may change as implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act moves forward.
−Removed: The subsidization of alternative energy sources may have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition or results of operations.
+Added: As a result, we may incur material liabilities or costs related to environmental matters in the future, and such environmental liabilities or costs could materially and adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: In addition, there can be no assurance that changes in laws or regulations would not affect the manner in which we are required to conduct our operations.
INFORMATION ABOUT OUR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
−Removed: The following tables set forth as of March 1, 2024 the name, age, current position and principal occupation and employment during the past five years of the Company’s executive officers.
+Added: The following tables set forth as of March 1, 2025 the name, age, current position and principal occupation and employment during the past five years of our executive officers.
There exists no arrangement or understanding between any executive officer and any other person pursuant to which such executive officer was selected.
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