To meet surging electricity demand, Iowa utilities are increasingly turning to polluting coal plants that had been operating well below capacity.By Anika Jane BeamerBefore Iowa was the nation’s most wind-powered state, it generated nearly all of its electricity with coal. Since 2000, the fossil fuel’s role in the state’s power mix has diminished as utilities built a massive fleet of wind turbines that now provides nearly two-thirds of the state’s power.

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