Company: MGY
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001698990-25-000006
Chunk: 54

Company: Magnolia Oil & Gas Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 54
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 impact of these actions remains unclear at this time. In addition, the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo to end the concept of general deference to regulatory agency interpretations of laws introduces new complexity for federal agencies and administration of climate change policy and regulatory programs. Consequently, to the extent that governmental entities in the United States or other countries implement or impose climate change regulations on the oil and gas industry, it could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, including by restricting Magnolia’s ability to execute on its business strategy, requiring additional capital, compliance, operating and maintenance costs, increasing the cost of Magnolia’s products and services, reducing demand for its products and services, reducing its access to financial markets, or creating greater potential for governmental investigations or litigation.

Furthermore, climate change-related developments may result in negative perceptions of the traditional oil and gas industry and, in turn, reputational risks associated with exploration and production activities. Negative public perception regarding the Company and/or its industry resulting from, among other things, concerns raised by advocacy groups about climate change, emissions, hydraulic fracturing, seismicity, or oil spills may lead to increased litigation risk and regulatory, legislative, and judicial scrutiny. These actions may cause operational delays or restrictions, increased operating costs, additional regulatory burdens and increased risk of litigation. Moreover, governmental authorities exercise considerable discretion in the timing and scope of permit issuance and the public may engage in the permitting process, including through intervention in the courts. Negative public perception could cause the permits Magnolia needs to conduct the Company’s operations to be withheld, delayed, or burdened by requirements that restrict the Company’s ability to profitably conduct the Company’s business. In addition, various officials and candidates at the federal, state, and local levels, have made climate-related pledges or proposed banning hydraulic fracturing altogether. More broadly, the enactment of climate change-related policies and initiatives across the market at the corporate level and/or investor community level may in the future result in increases in the Company’s compliance costs and other operating costs and have other adverse effects (e.g., greater potential for governmental investigations or litigation, driving down demand for the Company’s products, or stimulating demand for alternative forms of energy that do not rely on combustion of fossil fuels).

Increasing attention from governmental and regulatory bodies, investors, consumers, industry, and other stakeholders on combating climate change, together with changes in consumer and industrial/commercial behavior, societal expectations on companies to address climate change, investor and societal expectations regarding voluntary climate-related disclosures, preferences and attitudes