Company: VGASW
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-015480
Chunk: 56

Company: Verde Clean Fuels, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 56
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 trademarks. If we do not adequately protect our rights in our trademarks from infringement and unauthorized use, any goodwill that we have developed in those trademarks could be lost or impaired, which could harm our brand and our business.

Moreover, any negative publicity relating to our employees, current or future partners, our STG+® technology, our clean, renewable gasoline, or customers who use our technology or gasoline, or others associated with these parties may also tarnish our own reputation simply by association and may reduce the value of our brand. Additionally, if safety or other incidents or defects in our gasoline occur or are perceived to have occurred, whether or not such incidents or defects are our fault, we could be subject to adverse publicity, which could be particularly harmful to our business given our limited operating history. Given the popularity of social media, any negative publicity about our products, whether true or not, could quickly proliferate and harm customer and community perceptions and confidence in our brand. Other businesses, including our competitors, may also be incentivized to fund negative campaigns against our company to damage our brand and reputation to further their own purposes. Future customers of our products and services may have similar sensitivities and may be subject to similar public opinion and perception risks. Damage to our brand and reputation may result in reduced demand for our products and increased risk of losing market share to our competitors. Any efforts to restore the value of our brand and rebuild our reputation may be costly and may not be successful, and our inability to develop and maintain a strong brand could have an adverse effect on our business, prospects, financial condition, and operating results.

Legal, Legislative and Regulatory Matters

We may be unable to qualify for existing federal and state level low-carbon fuel credits and other carbon credits and the carbon credit markets may not develop as quickly or efficiently as we anticipate or at all. 

The continued development of carbon credit marketplaces will be crucial for our success, as we expect carbon credits (including, for example, the RFS for the D3 RIN and renewable-fuel credit various state carbon programs such as California’s LCFS) to be a significant source of future revenue. At the same time, the efficiency and integrity of the voluntary carbon credit market is currently subject to pressures and scrutiny relating to a number of factors including insufficiency of credit demand, the risk that carbon credits could be counted multiple times, concerns regarding the additionality or permanence of climate benefits that the credits represent, lack of standardization of and concerns regarding the integrity of credit verification. Additionally, such forces