47 ABC quotes Johnny fighting solar projects taking Eastern Shore farmland

When Annapolis pushed to drop more utility-scale solar onto Eastern Shore farmland, Johnny pushed back — hard. The Shore isn’t a parking lot for somebody else’s clean-energy goals. It’s working farmland, generational farmland, and once it’s covered in panels, it’s not coming back.

Out-of-state solar investors look at the open fields of Caroline, Dorchester, Talbot, and Wicomico Counties and see a balance sheet. Johnny looks at the same land and sees farms that have been in the same families for generations, the supply chain that feeds the Shore’s poultry industry, and the rural character that makes this place home.

Johnny called out exactly what’s happening: the energy mandates pushed through by the Democratic Supermajority are squeezing Shore agriculture between rising land pressure and Annapolis policies written by people who’ve never met an Eastern Shore farmer.