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.
Decolonization could be achieved by attaining independence, integrating with the administering power or another state, or establishing a free association status. The United Nations (UN) has stated that in the process of decolonization there is no alternative to the principle of self-determination.orld War II gave Japan occasion to conquer vast swaths of Asia, sweeping into China and seizing the Western colonies of Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Burma, Malaya and Indonesia among others, albeit only for the duration of the war.