BIPPS joins liberty groups at Frankfort news conference on Wednesday to call for rejection of radical environmental panel

The Bluegrass Institute will join the Kentucky 9-12 Project and Northern Kentucky Tea Party on Wednesday, June 2, to expose and call for the defunding of the Kentucky Climate Action Plan Council (KCAPC).

KCAPC is a phony stakeholder group created at the urging of environmental activists to address a phony global warming problem. Much of its funding and direction comes from the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Climate Strategies, a warming-alarmist organization.

A news conference will be held during the KCAPC’s meeting at Noon outside the Department for Environmental Protection Building at 300 Fair Oaks Drive. KCAPC’s agenda indicates that the group is not allowing public input until after votes on agenda items have already been taken.

Environmental extremists in Frankfort would have you believe there is scientific consensus about global warming that requires radical policies that would decimate Kentucky’s coal industry and threaten our individual freedoms,” said Jim Waters, the institute’s director of policy and communications. “Don’t believe it. This panel is being run by outsiders from Washington who could care little – and know even less – about Kentucky’s unique economy and robust energy industry.”

If this group was so sure its conclusions about global warming pass scientific rigors, it would not prevent debate on the issue during its meetings, Waters said.

“State and federal government agencies are using the environment to push policy changes that destroy jobs at a time when families are hurting because there are no jobs,” said Emily Shelton of the Boone County Tea Party. “They push policy changes that take away every personal liberty we have – from how we run our own businesses and how we steward our own private property, to what kind of products we must buy for our own homes. Calling for an end to KCAPC is an opportunity for citizens to push back.”