This is wrong. Ask Bill Brock, Robert Strauss, Carla Hills, Mickey Kantor, or Charlene Barshefsky if this is the best way to negotiate. There are many approaches for improving international industrial relations, labor rights, pollution prevention, and resource conservation that can and are being pursued productively by the United States. None of them besides directly trade-related measures requires the special device of fast track procedures. The President has ample executive authority to enter into agreements in these areas, most of the time not changing U.S. law and therefore not requiring congressional action.
Trade is important to improving the global environment.
Trade increases wealth, and with wealth it is possible to pay for smokestack scrubbers, sewers, and other systems to clean up pollution and improve public health. Open trade facilitates the spread of innovation, such as the environmental technology that America now sells around the world. Economic growth helps increase the middle classes in developing countries who in turn will generate local demand for clean air, clean water, and the enforcement of environmental laws. Finally, trade negotiations give the United States additional leverage in other labor and environmental negotiations. Most of all, we must raise living standards here and abroad if we seek higher wages and increased protection for the environment.