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.
transitive. 1  To surround or enclose with a fence or other barrier. See Synonyms at enclose. 2  To separate or keep out by means of a fence or other barrier: fenced off one field from another; fenced out the deer from the garden. 3  To sell (stolen goods) to a fence. 4  Archaic a. To ward off; keep away.