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abatement

noun as in lessening

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Yet still they focus on maintaining low fuel loads — brush abatement, forest thinning — which would burn at a lower intensity but still lead to an uncontrollable extreme wildfire.

We actually go out as a fire service and audit those bushfire abatement zones and asset protection zones.

“Despite repeated enforcement actions and abatement orders, the landfill operators have not adequately addressed the situation,” said Dusan Pavlovic, senior deputy county counsel for Los Angeles County.

An abatement order required the plant to improve infrastructure, operations and monitoring.

Multiple government agencies displaced and evicted Section 14 residents over at least five major abatement campaigns between 1936 and 1965, with the city’s direct involvement beginning in 1948, according to the historical study.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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