As Think Progress has documented, Sen. Barbara Boxer introduced the NAACP's Joint Resolution on Climate Change into the record following National Black Chamber of Commerce CEO Harry Alford's testimony, in which he described the purportedly negative effects of cap-and-trade legislation “on small and minority-owned businesses, their ability to create jobs and the impact on the communities that they serve” and said that the negative impacts “would differ across regions, across industries and across income levels depending on changes in local energy costs and on allocation formulas for permits. And that worries me and my members because the black community suffers mightily when the economy goes south.”