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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 able to vote your shares with respect to “non-discretionary” matters unless you provide instructions on how to vote in accordance with the information and procedures that your broker has provided to you.

Even though we are a company listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (“

#### Nasdaq
”), the New York Stock Exchange (“

#### NYSE
”) rules govern how a broker licensed by the NYSE can vote shares it holds on behalf of stockholders of Nasdaq-listed companies. If you are a beneficial owner whose shares are held of record by a broker, your broker has “discretionary voting” authority under NYSE rules governing brokers to vote your shares on “routine” matters, such as the ratification of Deloitte as our independent registered public accounting firm, even if the broker does not receive voting instructions from you. However, your broker does not have discretionary authority absent specific instructions from you to vote on the re-election of directors, which is considered a “non-routine” matter. If you don’t vote on non-routine matters, a broker non-vote will occur but such broker non-votes will have no impact with respect to the re-election of directors.

What is an abstention and how will votes withheld and abstentions be treated?

A “vote withheld,” in the case of the proposal regarding the re-election of directors, or an “abstention,” in the case of the proposal regarding the ratification of the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm, represents a stockholder’s affirmative choice to decline to vote on a proposal. Votes withheld and abstentions, though counted for the purposes of determining a quorum, will have no impact on the re-election of the directors and will have the same effect as voting “AGAINST” the ratification of Deloitte as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.

#### Who will count the votes?
Continental has been engaged as our inspector of election for the Annual Meeting to count and tabulate stockholder votes. If you are a stockholder of record, your executed proxy card is returned directly to Continental for counting and tabulation. As noted above, if you hold your shares through a broker, your broker returns one proxy card to Continental on behalf of all its clients.

### Where can I find the voting results of the Annual Meeting?
We plan to announce preliminary voting results at the Annual Meeting and will report the final voting results in a Current Report on Form 8-K, which we intend to file with