Company: ATO
Filing Date: 2025-12-09
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000731802-25-000061
Chunk: 14

Company: ATMOS ENERGY CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-09
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 14
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 responsibility for oversight of strategic risks. The Board satisfies this responsibility through reports by each Committee Chair regarding the committee’s consideration and actions, as well as through regular reports directly from employees responsible for management of particular risks within the Company.

### Integrated Risk Management
Atmos Energy’s integrated risk management (“IRM”) framework supports the Company’s Vision to be the safest provider of natural gas services by providing a consistent approach for the Company to identify and address risk. We actively engage internal and external experts to assist us with integrating our IRM process into our structure, operations, and business processes. The Risk Management and Compliance Committee (“RMCC”), which is overseen by the Management Committee, is charged with oversight of enterprise-wide risk management across all categories, including safety, security, and cybersecurity. The RMCC also has oversight of the Quality Assurance, ACTS (our integrated Safety Management System), and Management of Change frameworks. The Management Committee is comprised of the President and Chief Executive Officer, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President, Utility Operations, Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Senior Advisor, and Senior Vice President, Human Resources.

#### Cybersecurity
We continuously assess our risk of cyber threats to adapt quickly to the ever-changing challenges and risks surrounding cybersecurity. Atmos Energy has implemented policies, procedures, and controls to identify, protect, detect, and respond to cyberattacks or acts of online terrorism. Atmos Energy is also subject to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Transportation Security Administration (“TSA”) security directive for our natural gas pipeline monitoring and control systems. To learn more about our cybersecurity efforts, see our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025.

#### Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability
Operating our business safely, ethically, and transparently, and meeting our responsibilities to the environment, to our employees, and to the communities in which we operate and live, are among our highest priorities. To learn more about our corporate responsibility and sustainability efforts, see our Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report at https://www.atmosenergy.com/sustainability .

#### 2026 Proxy Statement25
Corporate Governance and Other Board Matters

### CEO and Management Succession Planning
The Board is actively engaged and involved in succession planning, including detailed discussions of the Company’s leadership and succession plans for key positions at the corporate officer level. As part of these activities, the Board engages in a robust CEO succession planning process, including reviewing development plans for potential CEO candidates and engaging with potential successors at Board meetings and in less