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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.

Karsten Neuhoff on Germany's Clean Energy Revolution

By Dan Gearino

Craig Morris on Germany's Transition To Wind and Solar

By Dan Gearino

Xcel Energy's Rush Creek Wind Farm mixes renewable energy and agriculture. Joe Amon/The Denver Post via Getty

Inside Clean Energy: Here Is How Covid Is Affecting Some of the Largest Clean Energy Projects

By Dan Gearino

Virginia State Capitol. Credit:  Zach Gibson/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: New Law Launches Virginia Into Landmark Clean Energy Transition

By Dan Gearino

Households with rooftop solar in Kansas are charged an additional fee to subsidize the electrical grid. A ruling in the Kansas Supreme Court deemed this discriminatory. Credit: Cromwell Solar of Lawrence, Kansas

Inside Clean Energy: Rooftop Solar Wins Big in Kansas Court Ruling

By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: 7 Questions (and Answers) About How Covid-19 is Affecting the Clean Energy Transition

By Dan Gearino

An empty mall in lower Manhattan on March 29, 2020

Coronavirus: When Meeting a National Emissions-Cutting Goal May Not Be a Good Thing

By Dan Gearino

New York Mayor Bill De Blasio hands out reusable bags on Feb. 28, 2020, ahead of a plastic bag ban, The ban was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic

Polluting Industries Cash-In on COVID, Harming Climate in the Process

By Dan Gearino, Georgina Gustin, James Bruggers, Kristoffer Tigue

Block Island Wind Farm, located off the shore of Rhode Island. Credit: Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: At a Critical Moment, the Coronavirus Threatens to Bring Offshore Wind to a Halt

By Dan Gearino

Coronavirus in New York. Credit: Eduardo Munoz/VIEWpress via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Coronavirus May Mean Halt to Global Solar Gains—For Now

By Dan Gearino

General Motors reveals its modular platform and battery system, Ultium, on March 4, 2020 at the Design Dome on the GM Tech Center campus in Warren, Michigan. Credit: Steve Fecht for General Motors

Inside Clean Energy: General Motors Wants to Go Big on EVs

By Dan Gearino

Credit: Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images

Coronavirus 'Really Not the Way You Want To Decrease Emissions'

By Dan Gearino

Coal-Fired Power Plants Hit a Milestone in Reduced Operation

By Dan Gearino

Credit: David McNew/AFP via Getty Images)

Inside Clean Energy: An Energy Snapshot in 5 Charts

By Dan Gearino

BP. Credit: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

BP’s Net-Zero Pledge: Sign of a Divide Between European and U.S. Oil Companies? Or a Marketing Ploy?

By Dan Gearino

Solar panels. Credit: Kerry Sheridan/AFP/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: A Michigan Utility Just Raised the Bar on Emissions-Cutting Plans

By Dan Gearino

Tesla Model S. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Tesla Gets Ever So Close to 400 Miles of Range

By Dan Gearino

Sunrise over windmills

Inside Clean Energy: The Case for Optimism

By Dan Gearino

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