You’ll recall the recent hubbub over the Bureau of Land Management’s decision, now reversed, to stop accepting applications for new solar energy projects on public lands until an environmental impact study can be completed. 

As part of that environmental impact study, the BLM and the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy will accept public comments until July 15, 2008. If you’d like to contribute to this process, you can submit your thoughts on the Web, or by mail to:

Solar Energy PEIS Scoping

Argonne National Laboratory

9700 S. Cass Ave. – EVS/900

Argonne, IL 60439

For those of us who haven’t done this sort of thing before, here are some tips from the agencies on how to comment effectively.