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Lawless Planet

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  • Listen Now— Over My Dead Body: Operation Sideswipe

    October 26, 2026 · 7 min

    A Hollywood stuntwoman turned personal injury attorney. A handsome disbarred lawyer with a dark past. And an elaborate scheme that leads to murder.Vanessa Motta gives up a career of fake car crashes for real ones. But her law career in New…

  • Listen Now: Audible True Crime – Ghost Story

    October 12, 2026 · 9 min

    Audible True Crime is a dedicated podcast feed where we bring you the best podcasts in true crime, with episodes dropping every single week.   Just in time for spooky season, we’re releasing a show called Ghost Story, a series about a…

  • Tim DeChristopher’s Lonely Battle for the Planet

    May 11, 2026 · 44 min

    When you hear the term “civil disobedience,” most people think about mass demonstrations. But sometimes, the most effective protest involves a single individual willing to disrupt the system. In 2008, Tim DeChristopher aka “Bidder 70”…

  • How Trump’s EPA Chief Is Dismantling Climate Regulation

    May 4, 2026 · 38 min

    With the arrival of the second Trump administration, many employees at the Environmental Protection Agency have felt like they’re under attack – from their own boss. Under its new chief Lee Zeldin, the EPA has slashed budgets, programs…

  • The Mining Disaster That Brought Down the 'Dark Lord of Coal'

    April 27, 2026 · 43 min

    Don Blankenship grew up poor in the heart of West Virginia coal country, but rose to become a union-busting CEO with a track record prioritizing profits over safety. For decades, he operated with seeming impunity, even as his company…

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  • Church Rock: America's Forgotten Nuclear Disaster

    April 20, 2026 · 37 min

    In July 1979, just months after a nuclear accident at Three Mile Island gripped the nation, the largest radioactive spill in U.S. history quietly unfolded on a Navajo reservation in Church Rock, New Mexico — and almost no one noticed. A…

  • Who's to Blame for L.A.'s ‘Zombie Fire’?

    April 13, 2026 · 49 min

    On New Year’s Eve 2024, an Uber driver named Jonathan Rinderknecht allegedly started a fire in the Pacific Palisades. The fire was quickly contained, but it lingered on underground as a “zombie fire.” Days later, fueled by Santa Ana Winds…

  • The Small Towns That Exposed the Dangers of Forever Chemicals

    April 6, 2026 · 43 min

    Chemical manufacturers like DuPont and 3M have invented nearly 15,000 synthetic compounds called PFAS, better known as “forever chemicals” because of how slowly they break down. They’re in the soil, our food, even our bodies. When the…

  • Disaster Capitalism Makes Landfall in Puerto Rico

    March 30, 2026 · 41 min

    In 2017, Hurricane Maria, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded, battered the island of Puerto Rico. In the aftermath, big banks, crypto bros and other ‘disaster capitalists’ swooped in to take advantage of the crisis. No one…

  • The People vs. Big Oil, Part 2: Chevron Strikes Back

    March 23, 2026 · 40 min

    In 2011, the people of Ecuador shocked the world by winning a multibillion judgment against Chevron for failing to clean up its oil operations in the Amazon. But back in the U.S., Chevron responded by suing their most prominent legal…

  • The People vs. Big Oil, Part 1: 'Amazon Chernobyl'

    March 16, 2026 · 47 min

    After Texaco (now Chevron) discovered oil in Ecuador, they left behind an ecological and public health disaster so severe that experts have dubbed it the "Amazon Chernobyl.” The local population then sued the company sparking an epic…

  • When Elon Musk’s Data Center Came to Town

    March 9, 2026 · 43 min

    When Elon Musk’s xAI opened a data center called Colossus in South Memphis for its chatbot, Grok, local politicians and business leaders hailed it as the first step towards turning Greater Memphis into “America’s Digital Delta.” But…

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About the show

It’s not that hard to kill a planet. All it takes is a little drilling, some mining, a generous helping of pollution and voila! Earth over. When you take stock of what’s left, it starts to look like a crime scene: Decapitated mountains, poisoned rivers, oil-soaked pelicans, maybe a sun-bleached cow skull in a dried-up lake bed. The only thing missing is yellow caution tape. On each episode of Lawless Planet, host Zach Goldbaum reveals the scams, murders and cover-ups on the frontline of the climate crisis, and the life and death choices people are making to either protect our world – or destroy it. Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Lawless Planet ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app.