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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.

A saguaro cactus is seen against the blue sky in Saguaro National Park, Arizona. Despite rich solar resources, Arizona's policies have often been unfriendly to solar power. But that's changing with the adoption of a statewide plan to get to 100 percent ca

Inside Clean Energy: Arizona’s Net-Zero Plan Unites Democrats and Republicans

By Dan Gearino

President-elect Joe Biden speaks to the media while flanked by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, at the Queen Theater after receiving a briefing from the transition Covid-19 advisory board on Nov. 9, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Credit: Joe Raedle/Gett

Inside Clean Energy: Four Things Biden Can Do for Clean Energy Without Congress

By Dan Gearino

Neil Chatterjee was demoted as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday. Credit: Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit

Trump Demoted FERC Chairman Chatterjee After He Expressed Support for Carbon Pricing

By Dan Gearino

Many Photovoltaik solar panels arranged as part of a solar powerplant. Credit: Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Not a Great Election Year for Renewable Energy, but There’s Reason for Optimism

By Dan Gearino

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden debates U.S. President Donald Trump at Belmont University on Oct. 22, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. Credit: Jim Bourg-Pool/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Biden’s Oil Industry Comments Were Not a Political Misstep

By Dan Gearino

The 2022 GMC Hummer EV is scheduled to go on sale in late 2021, with a price tag of $112,595 and a battery range of 350 miles. Credit: GM

Inside Clean Energy: The New Hummer Is Big and Bad and Runs on Electricity

By Dan Gearino

Solar panels work in an integrated power station in Yancheng city, in Jiangsu province, on Oct. 14, 2020. Credit: Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Four Charts Tell the Story of the Post-Covid Energy Transition

By Dan Gearino

bucket-wheel excavator removes the first layer of soil for the expansion of the nearby Welzow open-pit lignite coal mine on August 20, 2010 near Drebkau, Germany. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

What Germany Can Teach the US About Quitting Coal

By Dan Gearino

Steel is produced at ArcelorMittal Gent on Sept. 5, 2007 in Ghent, Belgium. Credit: Mark Renders/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: A Steel Giant Joins a Growing List of Companies Aiming for Net-Zero by 2050

By Dan Gearino

One of the smokestacks at the Gavin power plant in Cheshire, Ohio, which is now owned by Lightstone Generation LLC, an independent power producer. It continues to operate while many others have closed or are scheduled to close as utilities announce plans

Inside Clean Energy: Net Zero by 2050 Has Quickly Become the New Normal for the Largest U.S. Utilities

By Dan Gearino

Luminalt solar installers install solar panels on the roof of a home on May 9, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: In South Carolina, a Happy Compromise on Net Metering

By Dan Gearino

Afternoon commuter traffic streams northward from Los Angeles on the State Route 14 freeway on May 13, 2020 in Newhall, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

In a Bold Move, California’s Governor Issues Ban on Gasoline-Powered Cars as of 2035

By Dan Gearino

Aerial view of a wind-solar hybrid photovoltaic power station on September 12, 2020 in Zaozhuang, Shandong Province of China. Credit: Li Zongxian/VCG via Getty Images

Get to Net-Zero by Mid-Century? Even Some Global Oil and Gas Giants Think it Can Be Done

By Dan Gearino

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at the Google I/O 2017 Conference on May 17, 2017 in Mountain View, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Google Ups the Ante With a 24/7 Carbon-Free Pledge. What Does That Mean?

By Dan Gearino

Steam billows from the cooling towers at Exelon's nuclear power generating station in Byron, Illinois. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Illinois Faces (Another) Nuclear Power Standoff

By Dan Gearino

Firefighters monitor flames as they approach a residence in the valley area of Vacaville, northern California during the LNU Lightning Complex fire on August 19, 2020. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: What We Could Be Doing to Avoid Blackouts

By Dan Gearino

Joe Biden listens to a question from the media after delivering a speech at the William Hicks Anderson Community Center, on July 28, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Biden’s Climate Plan Shows Net Zero is Now Mainstream

By Dan Gearino

Volunteers for the nonprofit Grid Alternatives install solar panels on a house in Farmersville, California. Credit: Grid Alternatives

Inside Clean Energy: What’s a Virtual Power Plant? Bay Area Consumers Will Soon Find Out.

By Dan Gearino

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