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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.

Contractors move a SunRun Inc. solar panel up a ladder to the roof of a new home at the Westline Homes Willowood Cottages community in Sacramento, California, on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: The Coast-to-Coast Battle Over Rooftop Solar

By Dan Gearino

The Pine Tree Wind Farm and Solar Power Plant in the Tehachapi Mountains on March 23, 2021 in Kern County, California. Credit: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

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

By Dan Gearino

A farmer feeds cows in front of wind turbines that stand at the Amazon Wind Farm Fowler Ridge in Fowler, Indiana on Aug. 3, 2016. Credit: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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

By Dan Gearino

A Volkswagen ID 3 electric car is seen in a glass cage during a press conference in Berlin on May 8, 2019. Credit: Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Dan Gearino

Mark Reuss, General Motors president speaks at their Detroit- Hamtramck assembly plant on Jan. 27, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. Credit: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Dan Gearino

Wind turbines generate electricity at the San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm near Palm Springs, California. Credit: Robert Alexander/Getty Images

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

By Dan Gearino

Japanese Police wearing protective suits search for tsunami victims about 12 miles away from Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant on April 7, 2011 in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Credit: Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images

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

By Dan Gearino

Center Street, near the University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley was the first city in the United States to pass an ordinance that banned natural gas hookups in new construction. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

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

By Dan Gearino

Philanthropist Warren Buffett is joined onstage by 24 other philanthropist and influential business people featured on the Forbes list of 100 Greatest Business Minds during the Forbes Media Centennial Celebration at Pier 60 on September 19, 2017 in New York City. Credit: Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage via Getty Images

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

By Dan Gearino

Employees of the Goldbecksolar company stand in a solar park. Credit: Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images

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

By Dan Gearino

Workers repair a power line in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Credit: Thomas Ryan Allison/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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

By Dan Gearino

Karla Perez and Esperanza Gonzalez stay in their apartment during power outage caused by the winter storm on Feb. 16, 2021 in Houston, Texas. A winter storm has brought historic cold weather, power outages and traffic accidents to Texas. Credit: Go Nakamura/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Explaining the Crisis in Texas

By Dan Gearino

Xcel Energy is proposing to stop burning coal at the Sherburne County Generating Station in Becker, Minnesota, and build a natural gas power plant on the site. Credit: Tony Webster

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

By Dan Gearino

Norway is far ahead of the U.S. in its adoption of electric vehicles. The country plans to have 100 percent of new cars be EVs by 2025. Credit: Joel Santos / Barcroft Media via Getty Images

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

By Dan Gearino

Heavy equipment moves coal into piles at PacifiCorp's Hunter coal fired power pant outside of Castle Dale, Utah on Nov. 14, 2019. credit: George Frey/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Dan Gearino

General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra speaks on March 22, 2019 in Lake Orion, Michigan. The company announced on Thursday it aims to stop selling gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2035. Credit: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

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

By Dan Gearino

U.S. President Joe Biden prepares to sign executive orders after speaking about climate change issues in the State Dining Room of the White House on January 27, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden signed several executive orders related to the climate change crisis on Wednesday, including one directing a pause on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands. Also pictured, left to right, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and Vice President Kamala Harris. Credit: Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images

‘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

An employee walks in front of two smoke stacks at the Comanche Power Station on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. Credit: AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: What Lauren Boebert Gets Wrong About Pueblo and Paris

By Dan Gearino

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