Ah yes that hallowed institution that great “Chamber of Commerce” of our nation has spoken again. Yes, the organization who has supported the abuse of Chinese workers by opposing labor regulations (by China!) that would seek to protect them better, has graced us with another pearl of wisdom.

“We urge the Senate to refrain from including provisions that could negatively impact U.S. relations with key trading partners and disrupt the global trading systems,” the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Foreign Trade Council and two other groups said in a letter to Senate leaders.

“Climate change is a global problem that calls for international cooperation, not unilateral ultimatums.”

I’m surprised that they even recognize climate change as real! What they’re basically against in this situation is the United States applying a tariff on “carbon-intensive” goods like steel coming from countries who aren’t doing enough to reduce C02 emissions. Now mind you this provision would not take effect until 2020! By that time we’ll need to be doing things like this. Instead of the United States being the leader that it has to be on climate change “Da Chamber” wants us to sit idly by.