Whatever horsepower Ocean City had to employ in its fight to push proposed wind farms farther out to sea was severely reduced last week when Congress passed the new spending bill.

Excluded from it during negotiations between leaders of the two parties was a rider offered by Rep. Andy Harris (R-1) that would have eliminated funding for required wind farm site inspections if the farms were less than 24 miles from shore.

US Wind, as most people know by now, plans to erect the first phase of its installation 17 miles from the coast, with subsequent phases bringing towers much closer.

Read full story at OC Today.