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Listen Now— Over My Dead Body: Operation Sideswipe
Listen Now— Over My Dead Body: Operation Sideswipe
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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.
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- Listen Now— Over My Dead Body: Operation Sideswipe · 7 minA 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…
- Listen Now: Audible True Crime – Ghost Story · 9 minAudible 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…
- Tim DeChristopher’s Lonely Battle for the Planet · 44 min · Episodul 43When you hear the term “civil disobedience,” most people think about mass demonstrations. But sometimes, the most effective protest involves a single individual willing to…
- How Trump’s EPA Chief Is Dismantling Climate Regulation · 38 min · Episodul 42With 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…
- The Mining Disaster That Brought Down the 'Dark Lord of Coal' · 43 min · Episodul 41Don 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…
- Church Rock: America's Forgotten Nuclear Disaster · 37 min · Episodul 40In 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…
- Who's to Blame for L.A.'s ‘Zombie Fire’? · 49 min · Episodul 39On 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…
- The Small Towns That Exposed the Dangers of Forever Chemicals · 43 min · Episodul 18Chemical 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…
- Disaster Capitalism Makes Landfall in Puerto Rico · 41 min · Episodul 38In 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…
- The People vs. Big Oil, Part 2: Chevron Strikes Back · 40 min · Episodul 37In 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…
- The People vs. Big Oil, Part 1: 'Amazon Chernobyl' · 47 min · Episodul 36After 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…
- When Elon Musk’s Data Center Came to Town · 43 min · Episodul 35When 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…
- 'Field of Schemes': Organic Farming’s Epic Fraud · 44 min · Episodul 34When it comes to organic food, can we really trust what’s on our plate? Do we understand how it was grown or raised? The organic food industry is largely built on the honor…
- The Battle Over Burn Pits, a Military Practice That’s Making Veterans Sick · 46 min · Episodul 33When Jessey Baca returned from Balad Air Base in Iraq, he began experiencing strange health symptoms: fevers, chills, headaches, difficulty breathing. The VA tried to write off…
- The Bundy Family’s Bloody War over Federal Land · 44 min · Episodul 32The tug-of-war over undeveloped land in the U.S. is nothing new, but in 2014 Cliven and Ammon Bundy escalated their dispute over cattle grazing permits in Nevada to another…
- Who Hired Hackers to Target Climate Activists? · 42 min · Episodul 31In 2015, news broke that Exxon’s own scientists had known for decades that burning fossil fuels was causing global warming. To raise awareness, climate activists launched a…
- How America’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster Was Almost Erased · 42 min · Episodul 30One of the worst industrial disasters in our nation’s history occurred in West Virginia in the 1930s. Not in a coal mine – but in a tunnel chiseled out of a mountain for a…
- Clean Energy, Dirty Mines: The Dark Story of Congo Cobalt · 39 min · Episodul 29The device you’re using to listen to this podcast almost certainly contains cobalt. It’s a vital component of rechargeable batteries, which are essential to electric vehicles…
- The Unsolved Bombing of an Earth First! Activist · 40 min · Episodul 28In the late 1980s, Judi Bari was a fearless activist building an alliance between loggers and environmentalists to save the last of California's old growth redwoods. The same…
- Inside the Sting Operation to Catch Florida’s Alligator Thieves · 43 min · Episodul 27When Florida state wildlife officials begin to suspect that someone is illegally harvesting alligator eggs, they launch Operation Alligator Thief. At its heart: a veteran officer…
