Clergy push for Maryland offshore wind farms

“As clergy we recognize the core issue is the impact this has on people, particularly poor persons and persons of color,” Banks said.

“Power plants and coal ash dumps aren’t in our communities by coincidence; it is environmental racism,” the clergy wrote in their letter to state Sen. C. Anthony Muse (D-Dist. 26), a minister who serves on the Finance Committee and lives in Fort Washington, and four Prince George’s delegates on the Economic Matters Committee, including its Chairman Dereck E. Davis (D-Dist. 25) of Upper Marlboro.

Maryland’s major coal-burning power plants are mostly in the Washington-Baltimore region, including Chalk Point near Aquasco in southernmost Prince George’s County.