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CONSOL Energy's Emery Mine Recognized for Safety Performance

Posted on: Monday, 17 March 2008, 12:00 CDT

PITTSBURGH, March 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CONSOL Energy Inc.'s Emery Mine, near Price, Utah, has received the company's prestigious Liv Ireland Award, which recognizes outstanding safety performance for an underground mine.

The Liv Ireland Award was named after a former CONSOL executive. The award is given each year to the safest underground coal mine within the various CONSOL operations. For 2007, Emery had a 2.02 incident rate, which translates into only three recordable accidents and only one lost-time accident for the year.

One highlight of Emery Mine's achievement was that the operation maintained zero accidents for a 14 month period beginning in 2006 and continuing until October in 2007.

During an award ceremony honoring Emery employees, Peter B. Lilly, CONSOL president -- coal group, said, "Emery has proven that "Absolute ZERO" is more than just an expression at CONSOL Energy, it is a reality at Emery Mine. What was accomplished last year cannot be forgotten, but must be imitated this year and in the future. At CONSOL Energy, we are continually renewing and re-establishing our commitment to working safely every day, and eliminating all accidents, company-wide."

Emery employs 150 people and mined one million tons of coal in 2007.

CONSOL Energy Inc., a high-Btu bituminous coal and coal bed methane company, is a member of the Standard & Poor's 500 Equity Index and has annual revenues of $3.7 billion. It has 17 bituminous coal mining complexes in six states and reports proven and probable coal reserves of 4.5 billion tons. CONSOL Energy was named one of America's most admired companies in 2005 by Fortune magazine. It received the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining National Award for Excellence in Surface Mining for the company's innovative reclamation practices in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Also in 2003, the company was listed in Information Week magazine's "Information Week 500" list for its information technology operations. In 2002, the company received a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Climate Protection Award. Additional information about the company can be found at its web site: http://www.consolenergy.com/.

CONSOL Energy

CONTACT: Lynn Manning of CONSOL Energy, +1-412-831-4039

Web site: http://www.consolenergy.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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