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emission standard
Quantitative limit on the emission or discharge of a substance from a source, usually expressed in terms of a time-weighted average concentration or a ceiling value.

 


Emission Standard
The maximum amount of air polluting discharge legally allowed from a single source, mobile or stationary.
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Emission Standard - the maximum amount of pollution that is permitted to be discharged from a polluting source - for example, the number of pounds of dust that may be emitted per hour from an industrial process ...

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Definition (english only)
The maximum amount of discharge legally allowed from a single source, mobile or stationary.

Emission Standards
Government standards that establish limits on discharges of pollutants into the environment (usually in reference to air). ...

The emission standard for sources of air pollution requiring the maximum reduction of hazardous emissions, taking cost and feasibility into account.

National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Emission standards set by EPA for an air pollutant not covered by NAAQS that may cause an increase in deaths or serious, irreversible, or incapacitating illness.

Learn about a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency to weaken air emission standards and reporting requirements for industrial operations that spew tons of toxins into the atmosphere each year.

Federal Motor Vehicle Control Program: All federal actions aimed at controlling pollution from motor vehicles by such efforts as establishing and enforcing tailpipe and evaporative emission standards for new vehicles, testing methods development, ...

Heavy metals
certain metals, used industrially and harmful to living organisms, for which discharge and emission standards are set; including cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, zinc ...

Emission standards from EPA are just about everywhere and air pollutants are controlled from both industrial and automobile sources. [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management; v. 25, 177-195; 1993.] [Science; v. 26; 5151, 1255-1257; 1994.] ...

See also: Emission, Air, Pollution, Waste, Standards

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