

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.


Inside Clean Energy: What Happens When Solar Power Gets Much, Much Cheaper?
By Dan Gearino

Wind Energy Is a Big Business in Indiana, Leading to Awkward Alliances
By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: Well That Was Fast: Volkswagen Quickly Catching Up to Tesla
By Dan Gearino

The Solid-State Race: Legacy Automakers Reach for Battery Breakthrough
By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: Where Can We Put All Those Wind Turbines?
By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: 10 Years After Fukushima, Safety Is Not the Biggest Problem for the US Nuclear Industry
By Dan Gearino

A Furious Industry Backlash Greets Moves by California Cities to Ban Natural Gas in New Construction
By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: Warren Buffett Explains the Need for a Massive Energy Makeover
By Dan Gearino

A Clean Energy Milestone: Renewables Pulled Ahead of Coal in 2020
By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: The Right and Wrong Lessons from the Texas Crisis
By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: Explaining the Crisis in Texas
By Dan Gearino

How Does a Utility Turn a Net-Zero Vision into Reality? That’s What They’re Arguing About in Minnesota
By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: How Norway Shot to No. 1 in EVs
By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: Real Talk From a Utility CEO About Coal Power
By Dan Gearino

In a Major Move Away From Fossil Fuels, General Motors Aims to Stop Selling Gasoline Cars and SUVs by 2035
By Dan Gearino

‘We Need to Be Bold,’ Biden Says, Taking the First Steps in a Major Shift in Climate Policy
By Marianne Lavelle, Agya K. Aning, Dan Gearino, David Hasemyer, James Bruggers, Katie Surma, Kristoffer Tigue, Phil McKenna
