The agency now oversees roughly 100,000 wells, the most ever. It has pointed to its request for additional funding for inspections via fees charged to oil and gas companies as a way to fix oversight problems and other shortcomings identified by GAO and other investigations.
DMZ (demilitarized zone) In computer networks, a DMZ (demilitarized zone) is a physical or logical sub-network that separates an internal local area network (LAN) from other untrusted networks, usually the Internet.
â¢ DEMINERALIZATION (noun). The noun DEMINERALIZATION has 2 senses: 1. abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone). 2. the removal of minerals and mineral salts from a liquid (especially from water). Familiarity information: DEMINERALIZATION used as a noun is rare.