Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000092122-25-000036
Chunk: 31

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 31
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 4The Operations, Environmental and Safety Committee oversees progress toward our GHG emission reduction goals and fleet transition, including net zero carbon strategies, resource planning, emerging technologies and R&D and the impact on employees and communities of implementing the business strategies and operations                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |     |                                                              |

#### Southern Company2025 Proxy Statement33

#### Governance

#### Political Engagement Oversight
As a leading energy company that serves many communities through our subsidiaries, it is important to Southern Company’s business success to participate in the political process. We make political contributions in compliance with the laws and regulations that govern such contributions and in alignment with our commitment to act with integrity. We also engage directly with lawmakers and regulators on issues of importance to the Company and its stakeholders. Constructive relationships with policymakers allow our subsidiaries to deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to customers.

We have put in place decision-making and oversight processes for political expenditures and all governmental relations activities. Both management and the Board play important roles in these governance processes, including independent Director oversight of political expenditures and lobbying activities by our Nominating, Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee and Audit Committee. This also includes periodic review of governmental relations activities by our internal auditing organization to assess compliance with applicable laws and Company policies and procedures, the findings of which are reported to our Audit Committee.

As part of our commitment to good governance, we regularly review our disclosures against best practices. We have also engaged with our stakeholders on this topic in recent years. In the Sustainability section of our website under Policy Engagement and Advocacy at investor.southerncompany.com , we provide the following political engagement and advocacy disclosures:

| 4We published a Trade Association and Climate Engagement Report to provide additional transparency by bringing together existing disclosures and providing analysis and insight into our net zero advocacy positions and memberships in trade associations, along with an assessment of whether the climate change statements or positions of key trade associations are aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement. 
 4We describe the principles and public policy advocacy positions that are representative of the views we express in our engagements on climate-related matters.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
 4Our Report on Political Engagement Disclosures includes political contributions made by our subsidiaries and the lobbying dollars spent by trade associations that lobby at the state and federal level and to which our subsidiaries pay annual dues of $50,000 or more.                                                                                                                                              
 4Our Overview of Southern Company Policies and Practices for Political Engagement summarizes our approach to governance and oversight of these matters.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |

Our robust political engagement