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.
A Clean Energy Milestone: Renewables Pulled Ahead of Coal in 2020
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: The Right and Wrong Lessons from the Texas Crisis
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Explaining the Crisis in Texas
By Dan Gearino
How Does a Utility Turn a Net-Zero Vision into Reality? That’s What They’re Arguing About in Minnesota
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: How Norway Shot to No. 1 in EVs
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Real Talk From a Utility CEO About Coal Power
By Dan Gearino
In a Major Move Away From Fossil Fuels, General Motors Aims to Stop Selling Gasoline Cars and SUVs by 2035
By Dan Gearino
‘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
Inside Clean Energy: What Lauren Boebert Gets Wrong About Pueblo and Paris
By Dan Gearino
Biden Signs Sweeping Orders to Tackle Climate Change and Rollback Trump’s Anti-Environment Legacy
By Sabrina Shankman, Dan Gearino, David Hasemyer, James Bruggers, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna
Inside Clean Energy: Here Are 3 States to Watch in 2021
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Des Moines Just Set a New Bar for City Clean Energy Goals
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: The Energy Storage Boom Has Arrived
By Dan Gearino
The Enigmatic ‘Climate Chancellor’ Pulls Off a Grand Finale
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: Clean Energy Wins Big in Covid-19 Legislation
By Dan Gearino
Inside Clean Energy: The Solar Boom Arrives in Ohio
By Dan Gearino