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ICN reporter Dan Gearinoa

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.

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Hotel Verdant in downtown Racine, Wisconsin. Credit: Hotel Verdant/Charlestowne Hotels

A Boutique Hotel Helps Explain the Benefits of Businesses and Government Teaming Up to Conserve Energy

By Dan Gearino

An electric vehicle charging station in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. Credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Electrified Transport Investment Soared Globally in ’23, Passing Renewable Energy

By Dan Gearino

Workers push damaged solar panels into a machine to be recycled at the We Recycle Solar plant in Yuma, Ariz. on Dec. 6, 2023. Credit: Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images

Who Pays for Cleanup When a Solar Project Reaches the End of Its Life?

By Dan Gearino

A solar farm in Zhangye, China. Credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images

What If the Clean Energy Transition Costs Much Less Than We’ve Been Told?

By Dan Gearino

The Glen Canyon Dam, photographed in August 2021. Credit: Bureau of Reclamation

Lake Powell Is Still in Trouble. Here’s What’s Good and What’s Alarming About the Current Water Level

By Dan Gearino

New eligibility requirements for the federal tax credit eliminates dozens of previously qualifying EV models—the Nissan Leaf is one of them. Credit: Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

The (Pretty Short) List of EVs That Qualify for a $7,500 Tax Credit in 2024

By Dan Gearino

The small town of Rio Vista, located along the Sacramento River and Highway 12, is viewed from the air on May 22. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Do Wind Farms Really Affect Property Values? A New Study Provides the Most Substantial Answer to Date.

By Dan Gearino

A bicycle parking area at the Nørreport transit station in Copenhagen, an unusually bike-friendly city. Credit: Dan Gearino/Inside Climate News

What I Learned About Clean Energy in Denmark

By Dan Gearino

The charging equipment at the Pilot Travel Center near London, Ohio is part of a partnership between General Motors, Pilot Company and EVgo. Credit: Dan Gearino/Inside Climate News

We Went to the First EV Charging Station Funded by the Federal Infrastructure Law

By Dan Gearino

The statue of the author Hans Christian Anderson at City Hall Square in Copenhagen, photographed in August. The city is known for being bike-friendly and this street, Hans Christian Anderson Boulevard, sometimes feels like highway for bicycles. Credit: Dan Gearino/Inside Climate News

Denmark, a Global Climate Policy Leader, Strains to Live Up to High Ambitions

By Dan Gearino

Demonstrators from Extinction Rebellion gather to call on Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy to put a ban on new fossil fuel infrastructure, at the Massachusetts State House in Boston on Sept. 18, 2023. Credit: Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images

Massachusetts Just Took a Big Step Away from Natural Gas. Which States Might Follow?

By Dan Gearino

Porsche plans to use CO2-reduced steel in its sports cars from 2026. Credit: Courtesy of Porsche AG

The Race Is On to Make Low-Emissions Steel. Meet One of the Companies Vying for the Lead.

By Dan Gearino

Ohio Sen. Jerry Cirino speaks at a news conference in March 2023 about his bill that would regulate higher education. Credit: The Ohio Senate

Ohio Fails to Pass Restrictions on College Teaching About Climate Policies

By Dan Gearino

The second generation of Volkswagen's ID.3 electric car on a production line on May 24, 2023 in Zwickau, Germany. Credit: Jens Schlueter/Getty Images

Battery Prices Are Falling Again, and That’s a Good Thing

By Dan Gearino

A new residence hall at Creighton University has a solar water heater. Pictured is one of two groups of solar collectors on the roof. Credit: Naked Energy

A New Solar Water Heating System Goes Online as Its Developer Enters the US Market

By Dan Gearino

Stoneham, MA - March 1: Emergency personnel dot Montvale Avenue in Stoneham, Mass., after downed power lines trapped cars and trucks.

Microgrids Can Bolster Creaky Electricity Systems, But Most States Do Little to Encourage Their Development

By Dan Gearino

Gretchen Whitmer

Why Michigan’s Clean Energy Bill Is a Really Big Deal

By Dan Gearino

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer speaks to the press on an inundated I-94 in Detroit after a weekend of heavy rains.

Michigan Poised to Join States Requiring 100 Percent Clean Electricity

By Dan Gearino, Aydali Campa

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