Peabody Energy Re-Elects Directors at Annual Shareholder Meeting

ST. LOUIS, May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) 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 (NYSE: BTU) 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.  

SOURCE Peabody Energy

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