Dan Gearino

InsideClimate News

Dan Gearino covers the US Midwest, part of InsideClimate News' National Environment Reporting Network.

Dan Gearino covers the US Midwest, part of InsideClimate News' National Environment Reporting Network. His coverage deals with the business side of the clean-energy transition and he writes InsideClimate News' Inside Clean Energy newsletter. He came to InsideClimate News in 2018 after a nine-year tenure at The Columbus Dispatch, where he covered the business of energy and won state and national awards for his work, including from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and the National Headliner Awards. Before that, he covered politics and business in his native Iowa and in New Hampshire, working as a newspaper reporter and an occasional radio correspondent. He grew up in Warren County, Iowa, just south of Des Moines, and is an alumnus of Macalester College in St. Paul. He lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and two daughters.


In this Jan. 16, 2020, file photo an uniper coal-fired power plant and BP refinery steam beside a wind generator in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

What Germany can teach the US about quitting coal

The Big Fix

While the Trump administration has tried to revive the dying coal industry, the German government set an exit date and made a plan to help coal communities survive.

A three lane highway is shown packed with cars and taken with a blurry effect.

Love is blind: How Germany’s long romance with cars led to the nation’s biggest clean energy failure

Environment
A crowd of protesters

What Germany’s energy revolution can teach the US