I am writing to respond to the recent editorial in The Baltimore Sun, “Ocean City’s escalating war against wind power” (Aug. 19). The NAACP, including the Maryland State Conference and local chapters, have been vocal in our support of a clean energy transition in the state and across the nation.
As frontline workers in underserved communities on the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland, we recognize it is these communities that will suffer first from flooding, rising tides and saltwater intrusion into their drinking water and their farm fields.
The need for sustainable, clean energy is past due and goes far beyond the arguments being made now to prevent the construction of offshore wind farms that will replace dirty energy sources polluting our air and exacerbating the challenges of a changing climate…