Webcast Alert: CONSOL Energy Inc. Announces First Quarter 2008 Earnings Conference Call

PITTSBURGH, April 22  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CONSOL Energy Inc. (NYSE: CNX) announces the following webcast:

  What:  CONSOL Energy First Quarter 2008 Earnings

  When:  Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time

  Where: http://www.consolenergy.com/

  How:   Live over the Internet -- Choose the Investor Information tab on
         CONSOL Energy's homepage and log on to the webcast

  CONSOL Energy Contacts:
  Thomas F. Hoffman, Sr. VP External Affairs, [phone] or
  Charles E. Mazur, Jr., Director Investor Relations, [phone]



If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will be archived at http://www.consolenergy.com/

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 $3.8 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/.

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding CONSOL Energy's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report or Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year. 

DATASOURCE: CONSOL Energy Inc.



CONTACT:  Thomas F. Hoffman, Sr. VP External Affairs, [phone], or

Charles E. Mazur, Jr., Director Investor Relations, [phone], both for

CONSOL Energy Inc.



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

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