Ocean City’s effort to limit windmills fails in Md. House

A Maryland House of Delegates committee rejected a proposal on Friday that called for prohibiting wind farms from being built within 30 miles of Ocean City’s coast, a blow to the resort town’s effort to preserve beach vistas. But town officials aren’t done fighting. Mayor Rick Meehan said he had expected the proposed legislation to fail. Meehan and other town officials are now turning their attention to efforts at the federal level, and potentially a second state-level review, to press regulators to keep wind turbines as far from beaches as possible. “We support wind energy. We support clean energy,” Meehan said. “We just don’t want to see it at the detriment to Ocean City, our property owners and our economy.”