Lawmakers take a swipe at land, water and air quality issues

SALT LAKE CITY — Lawmakers this session poured more money into localized air quality research, beefed up staffing for regulators and agreed to establish a pilot program for emissions testing on certain diesel vehicles in Utah County.They also hiked registration fees for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids, leaving clean energy advocates dismayed over potentially slowing down the rate of switching to cleaner cars.Also in the arena of pollution struggles, the Utah Legislature endorsed a pr