Dive Summary:

• St. Louis-based Ameren Corp cannot transfer pollution waivers for five coal-fired plants to the Houston-based Dynegy Inc., which bought the coal plants, the Illinois Pollution Control Board announced Thursday.
• Dynegy sought the pollution-control waiver which allows the company a 5-year-delay on installing soot-control equipment required by the state. Ameren was granted the waiver in 2012 due to financial hardship.
• The Pollution Control Board voted 4-0 to deny the request from Ameren and Dynegy, saying Dynegy had to make its own case for delaying pollution controls.

From the article:
“St. Louis-based Ameren had said it might have to close some of its plants and cut hundreds of jobs if it didn't get the variance, which gave the company until 2020 to install pollution upgrades.”