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Greenland brings Denmark before the UN for failing to clean up old US military pollution

By Martin Breum May 17, 2017
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In an unprecedented measure, Greenland is asking the UN to investigate whether Denmark is guilty of violating human-rights conventions for what officials in Nuuk say is a failure to ensure that pollution left behind by the U.S. military was cleaned up.

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