In what is now an annual tradition, the pollution-prone season of December and January will spark the usual pronunciations from all quarters: Our air is hurting us, and it must be improved.
And, just as predictably, the people in charge will wholeheartedly agree, and then proceed to avoid significant advances.
To be sure, leaders in the Utah Legislature say they are serious. They even put the University of Utah’s Gardner Institute to work on developing a road map of possible solutions in time for the next session in January. Gardner hasn’t produced that yet, but one thing is already clear: The solutions will have to be more profound than anything the Legislature has been willing to do to this point.