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.
‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Set to Slash Through U.S. Climate and Justice Drive
By Marianne Lavelle, Aidan Hughes, Amy Green, Arcelia Martin, Dan Gearino, Georgina Gustin, Jake Bolster, Wyatt Myskow
The Revised ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Still Contains a Poison Pill. A Tax Expert Explains
By Dan Gearino
A Former California Utility Exec Explains Why Your Electricity Bills Are So High
By Dan Gearino
What Does the ‘Big Beautiful’ Debate Tell Us About the Politics of the IRA?
By Dan Gearino
What Will Tariffs Do to the Energy Economy? Here Are Three Scenarios
By Dan Gearino
House Republicans Have Passed a Bill to Gut the IRA. What Happened to All the Supposed Holdouts?
By Dan Gearino
Researchers Wanted to Understand Concerns With Batteries in Moss Landing, California. Their Funding Just Got Yanked
By Dan Gearino
Congress Begins Repeal of Clean Energy Tax Credits With ‘Sledgehammer Approach’
By Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino
Despite Federal Challenges, Two Leading Solar Advocates Are Continuing Their Forward Push
By Dan Gearino
Proposed Cuts to Energy and Environment Programs in Trump’s Budget Worry Advocates and Elected Officials
By Dan Gearino
Community Solar Plays Defense in Minnesota
By Dan Gearino
EV Sales Are Up in the US, But Tariffs Are a Storm Cloud for an Industry That Craves Stability
By Dan Gearino
More Than 60 Power Plants Exempted From Federal Mercury Limits
By Dan Gearino
Will US Tariffs Make World Leaders Value the Stability of Renewables?
By Dan Gearino
Solar Panel Prices Are Rising Again. Here’s Why, and What May Be Next
By Dan Gearino
How We Got a Green Bank, How Trump Is Trying to Kill It and Who Gets Hurt
By Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino