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Dan Gearino

Clean Energy Reporter, Midwest, National Environment Reporting Network

Dan Gearino covers the midwestern United States, part of ICN’s National Environment Reporting Network. His coverage deals with the business side of the clean-energy transition and he writes ICN’s Inside Clean Energy newsletter. He came to ICN in 2018 after a nine-year tenure at The Columbus Dispatch, where he covered the business of energy. Before that, he covered politics and business in Iowa and in New Hampshire. He grew up in Warren County, Iowa, just south of Des Moines, and lives in Columbus, Ohio.

President Joe Biden takes the oath of office during the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Biden Signs Sweeping Orders to Tackle Climate Change and Rollback Trump’s Anti-Environment Legacy

By Sabrina Shankman, Dan Gearino, David Hasemyer, James Bruggers, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna

The Massachusetts State House the seat of Government in Boston. United States. Credit: Tim Graham/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Here Are 3 States to Watch in 2021

By Dan Gearino

The Des Moines City Council unanimously voted this week in favor of a resolution that sets a goal of reaching 24/7 carbon-free electricity by 2035. Credit: Steve Pope/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Des Moines Just Set a New Bar for City Clean Energy Goals

By Dan Gearino

A worker controls batteries in an electricity storage container on Sept. 29, 2020 in Fontenelle near Dijon in France. Credit: Philippe Desmazes/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: The Energy Storage Boom Has Arrived

By Dan Gearino

German Chancellor Angela Merkel throws her voting card into the ballot box during passage of sweeping climate legislation in December 2019.

The Enigmatic ‘Climate Chancellor’ Pulls Off a Grand Finale

By Dan Gearino

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, walks to his office from the Senate Floor at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Dec. 18, 2020. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Clean Energy Wins Big in Covid-19 Legislation

By Dan Gearino

Solar photovoltaic power plant farm installation on Long Island, New York. Ohio now ranks 28th in the country in installed solar capacity, but ranks 14th in projected new capacity coming online in the next five years. Credit: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: The Solar Boom Arrives in Ohio

By Dan Gearino

Two cyclists ride on the car-free section of Friedrichstraße in Berlin, where a speed limit of 20 kilometers per hour (12 mph) applies. Credit: Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images

Trains, Walking, Biking: Why Germany Needs to Look Beyond Cars

By Dan Gearino

PacifiCorp's Hunter coal fired power pant releases steam as it burns coal outside of Castle Dale, Utah on Nov. 14, 2019. Credit: George Frey/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: The Era of Fossil Fuel Power Plants Is Rapidly Receding. Here Is Their Life Expectancy

By Dan Gearino

Stalks of corn are seen near York, Nebraska. The state is steadily increasing its use of renewable energy, helped by strong winds. Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: The Energy Transition Comes to Nebraska

By Dan Gearino

A saguaro cactus is seen against the blue sky in Saguaro National Park, Arizona. Despite rich solar resources, Arizona's policies have often been unfriendly to solar power. But that's changing with the adoption of a statewide plan to get to 100 percent ca

Inside Clean Energy: Arizona’s Net-Zero Plan Unites Democrats and Republicans

By Dan Gearino

President-elect Joe Biden speaks to the media while flanked by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, at the Queen Theater after receiving a briefing from the transition Covid-19 advisory board on Nov. 9, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Credit: Joe Raedle/Gett

Inside Clean Energy: Four Things Biden Can Do for Clean Energy Without Congress

By Dan Gearino

Neil Chatterjee was demoted as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday. Credit: Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit

Trump Demoted FERC Chairman Chatterjee After He Expressed Support for Carbon Pricing

By Dan Gearino

Many Photovoltaik solar panels arranged as part of a solar powerplant. Credit: Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Not a Great Election Year for Renewable Energy, but There’s Reason for Optimism

By Dan Gearino

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden debates U.S. President Donald Trump at Belmont University on Oct. 22, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. Credit: Jim Bourg-Pool/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Biden’s Oil Industry Comments Were Not a Political Misstep

By Dan Gearino

The 2022 GMC Hummer EV is scheduled to go on sale in late 2021, with a price tag of $112,595 and a battery range of 350 miles. Credit: GM

Inside Clean Energy: The New Hummer Is Big and Bad and Runs on Electricity

By Dan Gearino

Solar panels work in an integrated power station in Yancheng city, in Jiangsu province, on Oct. 14, 2020. Credit: Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Four Charts Tell the Story of the Post-Covid Energy Transition

By Dan Gearino

bucket-wheel excavator removes the first layer of soil for the expansion of the nearby Welzow open-pit lignite coal mine on August 20, 2010 near Drebkau, Germany. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

What Germany Can Teach the US About Quitting Coal

By Dan Gearino

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