The decision came nine months after the regulators, the Connecticut Siting Council, rejected an earlier plan for the cable.

In the past, regulators have rejected bankers' suggestions that banks not be forced to make quick write-offs of bad loans.

In March, the parties reached the initial tentative settlement that the regulators rejected.

In 2000, European regulators and their American counterparts rejected the deal on the grounds that it would create a company with too much market power.

Executives close to the commission said regulators rejected that proposal as insufficient on Thursday, in part, because it came with several strings attached.

Australian regulators have also rejected the proposal.

But several regulators rejected any notion that the law was imprecise.

While the regulators did not reject the deal outright, they asked for a new merger plan that would include the sale of some generating plants.

Any regulator who has a request for information rejected should be able to ask his or her peers to arbitrate.

The regulators rejected parts of the rate request, refusing the company's attempt to pass along some expenses of the nuclear plants to ratepayers.