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.
Annexation (Latin ad, to, and nexus, joining) is the forcible acquisition of a state's territory by another state. Usually, it is implied that the territory and population being annexed is the smaller, more peripheral, and weaker of the two merging entities, barring physical size.