Company: CLH
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000822818-25-000011
Chunk: 68

Company: CLEAN HARBORS INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
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 within the categories described above. In the two years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, the fees disclosed under this category included a subscription to Deloitte's Accounting and Research Tool.

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The Audit Committee has established procedures designed to ensure that all audit and permitted non-audit services provided by the Company's independent registered public accounting firm are pre-approved by the Audit Committee. Each year the Audit Committee approves the retention of the independent registered public accounting firm to audit our financial statements, including the associated fee. All of the services described above for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 were pre-approved by the Audit Committee.

The Audit Committee also monitors the Company's compliance with restrictions put in place to continue to ensure that the services provided by the Company's independent registered public accounting firm are consistent with the maintenance of that firm's independence in the conduct of its audit functions.

#### Audit Committee Report
The Audit Committee assists the Board of Directors in its oversight responsibilities related to the integrity of the Company’s financial statements, the independent auditor’s qualifications and independence, the performance of the Company’s internal audit function and independent auditors, and the identification and oversight of the Company’s risk assessment and risk management process. The Audit Committee’s specific responsibilities are set forth in the Audit Committee Charter adopted by the Board, which is available on the Company’s website.

The Audit Committee comprises the four directors named below. The Board has determined that each member of the Audit Committee is an independent director (as independence is defined in the listing standards of the New York Stock Exchange applicable to membership on audit committees). In addition, the Board has determined, based upon their education and experience, that each of Marcy L. Reed and Andrea Robertson is an “audit committee financial expert” as defined by Item 407(d)(5)(ii) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

The Audit Committee has reviewed and discussed the Company's audited financial statements with management, which has primary responsibility for the financial statements, and with the Company's independent registered public accounting firm. The Company's independent registered public accounting firm is responsible for expressing opinions on the Company's financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and on the Company's internal controls over financial reporting based on the criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. The Audit Committee has discussed with the Company's independent registered public accounting firm, which was