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.
1. a region, area, or section characterized by some distinctive feature or quality. 2. a sphere of thought, disagreement, argument, etc. 3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an area subject to a particular political, military, or government function, use, or jurisdiction: a demilitarized zone.