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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-131996"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CNR"
cik: "0001710366"
company_name: "Core Natural Resources, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-05-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T22:12:34.859875+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CEIX stockholders approve officer exculpation charter amendment, re-elect directors

## Summary
- Stockholders approved charter amendment to exculpate officers under DGCL § 102(b)(7); vote: 20.3M for, 2.7M against.
- All five director nominees (Brock, Mills, Pan, Perera, Platt) re-elected each for one-year term.
- Say-on-pay approved with 21.8M for, 1.2M against; advisory frequency set to one year (20.6M votes).
- Bylaws amended to adopt universal proxy card rules (Rule 14a-19) and add disclosure requirements.
- Ernst & Young ratified as auditor for fiscal 2024 with 26.3M votes for, 50k against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-131996
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CNR
- cik: 0001710366
- company_name: Core Natural Resources, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-05-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710366/000119312524131996/0001193125-24-131996-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710366/000119312524131996/d828922d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Core Natural Resources, Inc.: Filed Second Certificate of Amendment to provide for officer exculpation under DGCL Section 102(b)(7) (effective 2024-05-06).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2024-05-06
  source text: On May 6, 2024 the Company filed the Charter Amendment with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and the Charter Amendment became effective on that date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710366/000119312524131996/0001193125-24-131996-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  Core Natural Resources, Inc.: Board approved amendments to the Second Amended and Restated Bylaws, effective April 30, 2024, including changes to meeting place, adjournment, director nomination procedures, and universal proxy card requirements (effective 2024-04-30).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-04-30
  source text: The Board also approved certain amendments to the Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (the “Existing Bylaws”) which amendments are effective as of April 30, 2024 (as amended, the “Third Amended and Restated Bylaws”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710366/000119312524131996/0001193125-24-131996-index.htm

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