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…