Dan Gearino
Reporter, Clean Energy
Dan Gearino covers the business and policy of renewable energy and utilities, often with an emphasis on the midwestern United States. He is the main author of 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: Natural Gas Prices Are Rising. Here’s Why That Helps the Cleanest (and Dirtiest) Electricity Sources
By Dan Gearino
Illinois Now Boasts the ‘Most Equitable’ Climate Law in America. So What Will That Mean?
By Brett Chase, Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: In Illinois, an Energy Bill Passes That Illustrates the Battle Lines of the Broader Energy Debate
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: In California, the World’s Largest Battery Storage System Gets Even Larger
By Dan Gearino
After a Clash Over Costs and Carbon, a Minnesota Utility Wants to Step Back from Its Main Electricity Supplier
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Vote Solar’s Leader Is Stepping Down. Here’s What He and His Group Built
By Dan Gearino
Illinois Solar Companies Say They Are ‘Held Hostage’ by Statehouse Gridlock
By Dan Gearino, Brett Chase
Inside Clean Energy: Which State Will Be the First to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings?
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: In a Week of Sobering Climate News, Let’s Talk About Batteries
By Dan Gearino
Biden Tightens Auto Emissions Standards, Reversing Trump, and Aims for a Quantum Leap on Electric Vehicles by 2030
By Dan Gearino, Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz
Inside Clean Energy: Three Charts that Show the Energy Transition in 50 States
By Dan Gearino
Despite One Big Dissent, Minnesota Utilities Approve of Coal Plant Sale. But Obstacles Remain
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: A Geothermal Energy Boom May Be Coming, and Ex-Oil Workers Are Leading the Way
By Dan Gearino
Plan to Save North Dakota Coal Plant Faces Intense Backlash from Minnesotans Who Would Help Pay for It
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Ohio Shows Hostility to Clean Energy. Again
By Dan Gearino
A Lifeline for a Coal Plant Gives Hope to a North Dakota Town. Others See It as a Boondoggle
By Dan Gearino
