CVR ENERGY INC

(12) Commitments and Contingencies

In the ordinary course of business, the Company may become party to lawsuits, administrative proceedings, and governmental investigations, including environmental, regulatory, and other matters. The outcome of these matters cannot always be predicted accurately, but the Company accrues liabilities for these matters if the Company has determined that it is probable a loss has been incurred and the loss can be reasonably estimated. While there have been no material changes in the Company’s commitments and contingencies from those disclosed in the 2025 Form 10-K, recent developments are discussed below.

45Q Transaction

Under the agreements entered into in connection with the 45Q Transaction, the Company’s indirect subsidiary, Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen Fertilizer, LLC (“CRNF”), is obligated to meet certain minimum quantities of carbon oxide supply each year during the term of the agreement and is subject to fees of up to $15 million per year (reduced pro rata for partial years) to the unaffiliated third-party investors, subject to an overall $45 million cap, if these minimum quantities are not delivered. CVR Partners issued a guarantee to the unaffiliated third-party investors and certain of their affiliates involved in the 45Q Transaction of the payment and performance obligations of CRNF and CVR-CapturePoint Parent, LLC (“CVRP JV”), which include the aforementioned fees. This guarantee has no impacts on the accounting records of CVR Partners unless the parties fail to comply with the terms of the 45Q Transaction contracts.

Renewable Fuel Standard

Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing, LLC (“CRRM”) and Wynnewood Refining Company, LLC (“WRC”, and together with CRRM, the “obligated-party subsidiaries”) are subject to the RFS implemented by the EPA, which, absent any exemption or waiver, requires obligated parties to blend a certain amount of renewable fuels, called a Renewable Volume Obligation (“RVO”), into their transportation fuels or purchase RINs, in lieu of blending. The Petroleum Segment’s obligated-party subsidiaries are not able to blend the majority of their transportation fuels with renewable fuels and, unless their RFS obligations are waived or exempted, whether through the grant of small refinery exemptions (“SREs”) or otherwise, must either purchase RINs from third parties, including their affiliate, or obtain waiver credits for cellulosic biofuels in order to comply with the RFS.

In March 2026, the EPA issued an unpublished version of its final rule (a) establishing applicable blending volumes and percentage standards under the RFS for 2026 and 2027 for cellulosic biofuel, biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel; (b) partially waiving the 2025 cellulosic biofuel volume requirement and revising the associated percentage standard due to a shortfall in cellulosic biofuel production; and (c) promulgating several regulatory changes to the RFS program, including removing renewable electricity as a qualifying renewable fuel under the RFS program and making minor revisions to the biogas provisions of the RFS program, which final rule is expected to become effective on June 15, 2026 (the “2026/2027 RFS Final Rule”). In the 2026/2027 RFS Final Rule, the EPA confirmed its intention to add to annual blending obligations volumes that account for 70% of volumes actually exempted by the EPA for 2023 and 2024 compliance years and those projected to be exempted by the EPA for the 2025 compliance year, estimated by the EPA to total 2.89 billion RINs. WRC and CRRM are evaluating what actions they may take in response to the 2026/2027 RFS Final Rule.

The costs for our obligated-party subsidiaries to comply with the RFS obligation through purchasing of RINs not otherwise reduced by blending of ethanol, biodiesel, or renewable diesel are included within Cost of materials and other in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. At each reporting period, to the extent RINs purchased and generated through blending are less than the RFS obligation (excluding the impact of exemptions or waivers to which the Company may be entitled), the remaining position is valued using RIN market prices at period end for each specific or closest vintage year.

As of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, the Company’s obligated-party subsidiaries’ RFS positions were approximately $204 million and $72 million, respectively, and are recorded in Other current liabilities in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.

Litigation

Call Option Coverage Cases – The appeal filed by the Company and certain of its affiliates (the “Call Defendants”) of the summary judgment granted in Texas state court (the “Texas Suit”) in favor of certain of the Company’s primary and excess insurers (the “Insurers”) relating to the August 2022 settlement (the “Settlement”) of the consolidated lawsuits filed by purported former unitholders of CVR Refining, LP on behalf of themselves and an alleged class of similarly situated unitholders relating to the Company’s exercise of the call option under the CVR Refining, LP Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership, has been fully briefed but remains pending before an appellate court in Texas. In April 2026, the Call Defendants requested a status conference in the action filed by the Call Defendants in Delaware against the Insurers seeking recovery of all amounts paid in connection with the Settlement (the “Delaware Suit”), which Delaware Suit had been effectively stayed by the Delaware court pending the outcome of the Texas Suit appeal. While both cases remain pending, the Company does not expect the outcome of these lawsuits to have a material adverse impact on the Company’s financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

Renewable Fuel Standard – The petitions for review filed by WRC and multiple other parties of the EPA’s August 2025 decision on multiple pending petitions for SREs including but not limited to those filed by WRC (the “August 2025 SRE Decisions”), as well as the petitions for review of the EPA’s December 2025 decision ruling on previously pending SRE petitions filed by other small refiners (together with the August 2025 SRE Decisions, the “2025 SRE Decisions”) remain pending and in their earliest stages. Certain small refineries, including WRC, have been granted leave to intervene in the petitions for review filed by certain biofuels groups challenging the EPA’s grant of SREs in the August 2025 SRE Decisions.

The EPA has failed to rule on WRC’s SRE petition filed in July 2025, despite the EPA’s legal obligation to rule on such petition within ninety days. WRC is currently evaluating any actions WRC may take relating to its 2025 SRE petition should the EPA fail to rule, or adversely rule, on WRC’s 2025 SRE petition.

As each of these matters are in their earliest stages, the Company cannot yet determine the impact of these matters on WRC’s past, current, and future obligations under the RFS or the Company’s financial position, results of operations, or cash flows, which could be material.

Guaranty Dispute – All deadlines have been temporarily stayed until June 2026 in the 2024 action filed by Wynnewood Energy Company, LLC (“WEC”) in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware disputing the validity of an alleged 1993 guaranty (the “Guaranty Dispute”) asserted by Exxon Mobil Corporation (“XOM”) to obligate WRC to defend and indemnify XOM against multiple lawsuits filed against XOM between 2018 and 2025 by property owners in Louisiana alleging property contamination from oil wells, pending continued engagement by WEC and XOM in mediation activities. While WEC continues to deny the validity of XOM guaranty, if these matters are ultimately concluded in a manner adverse to the Company, they could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

CRNF Ammonia Release - CVR Energy, CVR Partners and certain affiliates have been served with multiple lawsuits relating to an October 2025 ammonia release at the nitrogen fertilizer facility in Coffeyville, Kansas (the “Coffeyville Fertilizer Facility”), following which multiple contractors were evaluated and treated for potential injuries, including personal injury and related claims for damages filed in Texas state court and a declaratory judgment action filed in Kansas state court byone carrier seeking declaration that they owe no duty to defend or indemnify the Company in certain of the underlying personal injury lawsuits. As these matters are in preliminary stages, the Company cannot yet determine whether they could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

Kansas Environmental Claims - Discovery has commenced in the lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas against CVR Energy, CVR Partners and certain of their affiliates (collectively, the “Kansas Defendants”) bythree residents of Coffeyville and a purported class of similarly situated persons seeking compensatory and punitive damages and a court-supervised medical monitoring program, arising from alleged emissions from operations at the refinery in Coffeyville, Kansas and the Coffeyville Fertilizer Facility. While this matter is in its earliest stages, if ultimately concluded in a manner adverse to the Kansas Defendants, it could have a material effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

(13) Business Segments

CVR Energy’s revenues are primarily derived from thetwo reportable segments: Petroleum and Nitrogen Fertilizer, which were determined based on the management approach, reflecting the internal reporting used by the Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”), the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, to evaluate performance and make strategic decisions.

•Petroleum includes the refining and marketing of high value transportation fuels which consist of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and distillates. The Petroleum Segment also includes activities related to crude gathering and logistics that support the refinery operations.

•Nitrogen Fertilizer includes the production and sales of nitrogen fertilizer products, primarily in the form of ammonia and UAN, for the farming industry.

The CODM evaluates the performance of each reportable segment and decides how to allocate resources, as applicable, based on segment operating income (loss) which includes the revenue and expenses that are directly attributable to each segment, as well as the total assets per segment. The CODM uses operating income (loss) and total assets by segment to assess the results generated by each reportable segment and to decide, as applicable, whether to recommend that the Board reinvest profits into the reportable segments, if at all, or pay dividends. Operating income (loss) by segment is also used to analyze performance against the budget and the Company’s competitors.

The other amounts reflect intercompany transactions, corporate cash and cash equivalents, income tax activities, and other corporate activities that are not allocated or aggregated to the reportable segments.

The following tables present the operating results and capital expenditures information by segment, the reconciliations to the consolidated net profit (loss), and other required disclosures:

The following table summarizes the reconciliation of total assets by segment to consolidated total assets:

(1)Capital expenditures are shown exclusive of capitalized turnaround expenditures.

(14) Supplemental Cash Flow Information

Cash flows related to income taxes, interest, leases, and capital and turnaround expenditures included in accounts payable were as follows:

(1)Capital expenditures are shown exclusive of capitalized turnaround expenditures.

(15) Related Party Transactions

Activity associated with the Company’s related party arrangements for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 is summarized below:

(1)Sales to related parties, included in Net sales in our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations, consists of carbon oxide sales to a CVRP JV subsidiary.

Dividends to CVR Energy Stockholders

Dividends, if any, including the payment, amount and timing thereof, are determined at the discretion of the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”). IEP, through its ownership of the Company’s common stock, is entitled to receive dividends that are declared and paid by the Company based on the number of shares held at each record date.

There were no dividends declared or paid during 2025. For the first quarter of 2026, the Company, upon approval by the Board on April 29, 2026, declared a cash dividend of $0.10 per share, or $10 million, which is payable May 18, 2026 to shareholders of record as of May 11, 2026. Of this amount, IEP will receive $7 million due to its ownership interest in the Company’s shares.

Distributions, if any, including the payment, amount and timing thereof, and the board of directors of CVR Partners’ general partner’s (the “UAN GP Board”) distribution policy, including the definition of available cash, are subject to change at the discretion of the UAN GP Board. The following table presents quarterly distributions paid by CVR Partners to CVR

Partners’ unitholders, including amounts received by the Company and IEP, during 2026 and 2025 (amounts presented in the table below may not add to totals presented due to rounding):

(1)Amount represents the cumulative distributions, calculated quarterly, paid in the respective period.

For the first quarter of 2026, CVR Partners, upon approval by the UAN GP Board on April 29, 2026, declared a distribution of $4.00 per common unit, or approximately $42 million, which is payable May 18, 2026 to unitholders of record as of May 11, 2026. Of this amount, CVR Energy and IEP will receive approximately $16 million and $1 million, respectively, with the remaining amount payable to public unitholders.