LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A Youth Climate Summit was held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s east campus on Friday, gathering young people from the community to learn more about climate change and what can be done about it in Nebraska.

This is the seventh year the summit’s been put on, and about 100 high school students attended to learn more about the economic, social and even mental health impacts that climate change has.

Speakers included Nebraska State Climatologist Deborah Bathke, a renewable energy company, UNL professors and Sheridan Macy, an environmental attorney.

Macy said she recently helped write a bill for the State Legislature that would give Nebraskans the right to a clean and healthy environment.

“We all depend on the environment to live, we all need water, we all nee

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