How America’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster Was Almost Erased
One 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 hydroelectric power plant. H...
2 Feb 42min
Clean Energy, Dirty Mines: The Dark Story of Congo Cobalt
The 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, laptops, and smartphones...
26 Jan 39min
The Unsolved Bombing of an Earth First! Activist
In 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 traits that attracted fol...
19 Jan 40min
Inside the Sting Operation to Catch Florida’s Alligator Thieves
When 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 named Jeff Babauta, w...
12 Jan 42min
The Trash Ship That Became a Symbol of America’s Toxic Waste Problem
In the 1980s, Philadelphia was in the midst of a trash crisis. A sanitation workers’ strike had left the city with an immense backlog of garbage. The solution: Ship it overseas, on a rusting cargo ves...
5 Jan 32min
Drilled: How Greenpeace Got Sued for the Standing Rock Protests
Today, Lawless Planet brings you an episode from our friends at Drilled Media. Season 12 of their flagship podcast is called SLAPP’d, and it tells another side of a story we covered earlier in our epi...
29 Dec 202543min
Scamfluencers: The Solar Powered Scammer
We’re doing something different on Lawless Planet this week. We’re sharing an episode from our friends Scamfluencers — a show that unpacks the wildest true stories of high-profile scams and the con ar...
22 Dec 202543min
Europe Had a Plan to Reduce Carbon Emissions. Scammers Fleeced It for Billions
When scam artist Gregory Zaoui got out of prison in 2004, he had a plan to go straight – by selling solar panels. But when he learned about a new carbon trading system that was supposed to reduce CO2 ...
15 Dec 202539min
