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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.

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

Nipsco Power Station in Michigan City, Indiana. Credit: Universal Images Group/Getty Images

Indiana Bill Would Make it Harder to Close Coal Plants

By Dan Gearino

Xcel's Comanche Generating Station, the largest power plant in Colorado, runs on coal. Credit: Andy Cross/Denver Post via Getty Images

Utilities Have Big Plans to Cut Emissions, But They’re Struggling to Shed Fossil Fuels

By Dan Gearino

Amy Klobuchar. Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Amy Klobuchar on Climate Change: Where the Candidate Stands

By Dan Gearino

Coal train in Virginia. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images

Energy Regulator's 2-1 Vote Could Boost Coal Over Renewables

By Dan Gearino

Unfamiliar Ground: Bracing for Climate Impacts in the American Midwest

Unfamiliar Ground: Bracing for Climate Impacts in the American Midwest

By Dan Gearino

Midwest flooding in the spring of 2019 in Craig, Missouri. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

As Climate Change Threatens Midwest's Cultural Identity, Cities Test Ways to Adapt

By Dan Gearino

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