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emission standard
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emission standard [i′mish·ən ‚stan·dərd]
(engineering)
The maximum legal quantity of pollutant permitted to be discharged from a single source.
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For example, the 35 miles per gallon Corporate Average Fuel Economy touted by Jackson and LaHood won't be reached until 2016, and even then there are fudge factors that could render that amount imaginary; same for reductions in carbon dioxide from motor vehicles to 250 grams per mile.
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