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Peabody Energy today announced that 10 directors were re-elected for one-year terms at the company's 2010 annual meeting of shareholders.

  Re-elected directors are:
  --  Gregory H. Boyce, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Peabody
      Energy;
  --  William A. Coley, former Chief Executive Officer and Director of
      British Energy Group plc;
  --  William E. James, co-founder and Managing General Partner of RockPort
      Capital Partners LLC;
  --  Robert B. Karn III, former Managing Partner with Arthur Andersen
      Financial and Consulting in St. Louis;
  --  M. Frances Keeth, former Executive Vice President of Royal Dutch
      Shell, plc;
  --  Henry E. Lentz, Managing Director of Lazard Freres & Co. LLC;
  --  Robert A. Malone, former Chairman and President of BP America Inc.;
  --  William C. Rusnack, former President and Chief Executive Officer of
      Premcor Inc.;
  --  John F. Turner, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans
      and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; and
  --  Alan H. Washkowitz, former Managing Director of Lehman Brothers Inc.

Board member Sandra A. Van Trease, Group President of BJC Healthcare, continues to serve out the remainder of her three-year term before standing for re-election in 2011.

Peabody Energy is the world's largest private-sector coal company, with 2009 sales of 244 million tons and $6 billion in revenues. Its coal products fuel 10 percent of all U.S. electricity generation and 2 percent of worldwide electricity.

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SOURCE: Peabody Energy