Company: VGASW
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-020032
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Company: Verde Clean Fuels, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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. If you hold your shares through a bank, broker or other nominee, you will need to take additional steps to participate in the Annual Meeting, as described in the Proxy Statement.

A Proxy Statement and Proxy Card for the Annual Meeting are enclosed. The Annual Meeting is for the following purposes, as proposed by our Board of Directors:

| 1. |     | To re-elect Curtis Hébert, Jr.and Ron Hulme as Class II directors, to serve until the 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their successors shall have been duly elected and qualified or until their earlier resignation, death or removal; |

| 3. |     | To transact such other business as may properly be raised at the Annual Meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof. |

Only stockholders of record at the close of business on April 24, 2025 are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

Your vote is important. Whether or not you plan to attend the Annual Meeting, we encourage you to read the accompanying Proxy Statement and to submit your proxy or voting instructions as soon as possible. For specific instructions on how to vote your shares, please refer to the instructions on the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials you received in the mail or, if you received printed proxy materials, on the enclosed Proxy Card.

| By Order of the Board of Directors, |

| /s/ Ron Hulme         |
| Ron Hulme             |
| Chairman of the Board |

Houston, Texas

April 29, 2025

Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Annual Meeting to be Held on June 12, 2025:

The Proxy Statement and the Annual Report to Stockholders, which consists of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, are available at https://www.cstproxy.com/verdecleanfuels/2025. We expect the proxy materials to be mailed and/or made available to each stockholder entitled to vote on or before April 29, 2025.

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| QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE 2025 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS                           |     |  1 |
| PROPOSAL NO. 1 – ELECTION OF DIRECTORS                                                        |     |  7 |
| INFORMATION REGARDING DIRECTOR NOMINEES AND CONTINUING DIRECTORS                              |     |