Company: NC
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000789933-25-000006
Chunk: 132

Company: NACCO INDUSTRIES INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-05
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
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 our pension plan in 2025 and any settlements will be paid out of pension plan assets. NACCO maintains one supplemental retirement plan that pays monthly benefits to participants directly out of corporate funds. NACCO also expects to make payments related to our other postretirement plans. See Note 14 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K for further information on future benefit payments. 

NACCO has asset retirement obligations. See Note 7 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K for further discussion of our asset retirement obligations. 

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Table of ContentsItem 7.    MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONSNACCO INDUSTRIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES(Tabular Amounts in Thousands, Except Per Share and Percentage Data)

NACCO has unrecognized tax benefits, including interest and penalties. See Note 13 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K for further discussion of our income taxes. 

We are a party to certain guarantees related to Coyote Creek. We believe that the likelihood of future performance under the guarantees is remote, and no amounts related to these guarantees have been recorded. See Note 16 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K for further discussion of our guarantees.

We utilize letters of credit to support commitments made in the ordinary course of business. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, outstanding letters of credit totaled $30.9 million and $34.9 million, respectively. 

ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS

We are affected by the regulations of numerous agencies, particularly the Federal Office of Surface Mining, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and associated state regulatory authorities. In addition, we closely monitor proposed legislation and regulation concerning SMCRA, CAA, ACE, CWA, RCRA, CERCLA and other regulatory actions.

Compliance with these increasingly stringent regulations could result in higher expenditures for both capital improvements and operating costs. 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. 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. It is not yet clear how existing