UIL Holdings Corporation (UIL)

[Timothy Smith]

UIL Holdings (NYSE:UIL) and proposed merger partner Iberdrola (OTCPK:IBDSF, OTCPK:IBDRY) would pick up the entire $30M tab for cleaning up the long-idled, polluted English Station power plant in New Haven, in an agreement announced today by Connecticut's attorney general.

The agreement is separate from the merger approvals the companies are seeking from the state's utility regulator, whose members have said they cannot consider the cleanup as a condition of approving the merger, but the agreement is contingent on the merger securing all regulators' approvals.