Isaac Windes, State Press, February 27, 2019
ASU students held a press conference with community leaders to call on Congress to take immediate action on climate change Wednesday at the Capitol.
Defend Our Future is a national nonprofit with a chapter at ASU. The state director of the organization, Nick Petrusek said the conference was a plea to Congress.
“We are gathered here for our act now on climate change press conference,” Petrusek said. “Climate change is a growing issue here in the United States as well as elsewhere in the world — this is a plea to Congress to say we need action immediately.”