They retired to Tennessee after an oil spill. The pipeline operator moved in next door

Keith and Susan Havens know firsthand that fossil fuels hurtling out of sight underneath us don’t always stay underground.

Before the couple retired to a secluded cabin on White Creek in Morgan County, Tennessee, they lived just upstream of a pipeline in Michigan that ruptured in 2010, pouring oil into the Kalamazoo River in one of the worst inland oil spills in U.S. history.

More than a decade later, they learned the same pipeline operator planned to build a natural gas pipeline only yards from their property line in Tennessee…

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