Kate Sheppard, a some time contributor to Campus Progress and writer for Mother Jones, reported today that a group of anti-corporate activists known as the Yes Men tricked mainstream reporters from Reuters (republished on the Washington Post and the NYTimes) and the National Journal into writing stories that the Chamber of Commerce was endorsing the Waxman-Markey climate change bill. You can read Sheppard's whole account here.

The actual response from the Chamber of Commerce is here:

We oppose the Waxman-Markey bill because it is neither comprehensive nor international, and it falls short on moving renewable and alternative technologies into the marketplace and enabling our transition to a lower carbon future. It would also impose carbon tariffs on goods imported into the United States, a move that would almost certainly spur retaliation from global trading partners.
 
Some in the environmental movement claim that, because of our opposition to a specific bill or approach, we must be opposed to all efforts to reduce greenhouse gases, or that we deny the existence of any problem. They are dead wrong. The Chamber has in its public documents, Hill letters and testimony, as well as dozens of concrete policy recommendations, supported efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere while keeping our economy healthy. 

Defensive much? It seems also appropriate to point out that the Waxman-Markey bill doesn't cover international law because, um, Congress doesn't have power over international law. Congress' power, like many other national governments, is relegated to its own domestic laws.