Action Alert - the Friends Committee on National Legislation reports that between now and April 30 (an extended deadline), the Energy Department is collecting comments on the Bush administration’s proposal to restart the U.S.’s nuclear weapons program. Sixteen national religious organizations filed formal public comments opposing the administration’s plans to build a new nuclear bomb plant that would be wasteful, unneeded, and dangerous, the Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers) announced.

Read the full text of the statement (PDF), organized by FCNL and the National Religious Partnership on the Nuclear Weapons Danger”, to go to the article entitled “Public Comments to the Energy Department on the Supplement to the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement Complex Transformation” for further information. and to see a list of signers.