Getting to Work on Climate Policy: The Strategy of Labor-Environmental Coalitions

Why labor works alongside environmental groups to advocate climate policies in some times and places but not others.

Climate policy research increasingly identifies organized labor as a barrier to climate policy but also a potential supporter and calls for climate advocates to build coalitions with labor. Getting to Work on Climate Policy explains why labor works alongside environmental groups to advocate climate policies in some times and places but not others, drawing on case studies of fo...