Criminal CWA Case May Signal New Trend In Mining Industry

Law360, New York (March 18, 2015, 11:14 AM EDT) -- XS Platinum Inc. (XSP) and five of its officers and employees recently became the subject of the first federal criminal environmental enforcement action against a mining company in Alaska, with charges stemming from alleged violations of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, commonly referred to as the Clean Water Act (CWA), at the company's formerly owned Platinum Creek Mine (PCM) in southwest Alaska....

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