abatement
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City officials even offered the warehouse owner, Dalfen Industrial, 10 years’ worth of tax abatement, totaling about $20 million, if they agreed not to sell their warehouse to DHS.
From Slate • Mar. 12, 2026
“Once you have a carbon price into the mid-teens, and certainly into the twenties, that’s a very healthy level. You can drive a lot of abatement with a carbon price at those levels.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
New York, Washington and Boston have property tax abatement programs, for example.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
If the council agrees the lights amount to a statutory nuisance, it can issue an abatement notice which if ignored could result in a fine.
From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025
The research was part of a study examining lead abatement methods, and all families involved were black.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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