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.
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
Inside Clean Energy: Lawsuit Recalls How Elon Musk Was King of Rooftop Solar and then Lost It
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Offshore Wind Takes a Big Step Forward, but Remains Short of the Long-Awaited Boom
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: From Sweden, a Potential Breakthrough for Clean Steel
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Ohio’s EV Truck Savior Is Running Out of Juice
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Solar Panel Prices Are Rising, but Don’t Panic.
By Dan Gearino
As Illinois Strains to Pass a Major Clean Energy Law, a Big Coal Plant Stands in the Way
By Dan Gearino, Brett Chase
Inside Clean Energy: Yes, We Can Electrify Almost Everything. Here’s What That Looks Like.
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: What’s Cool, What We Suspect and What We Don’t Yet Know about Ford’s Electric F-150
By Dan Gearino
Dutch Court Gives Shell Nine Years to Cut Its Carbon Emissions by 45 Percent from 2019 Levels
By Kristoffer Tigue, Dan Gearino