Mealey's (July 24, 2020, 1:28 PM EDT) -- AUSTIN, Texas — A public advocacy group and two ranchers sued the Railroad Commission of Texas on July 22, arguing that it violated state law when it issued emergency orders due to the new coronavirus pandemic, which allow abandoned oil wells to go unplugged, waste pits to go unremediated and oil and gas to be injected and stored underground in a formation other than a salt dome, which threatens to pollute the groundwater (Public Citizen Inc., et al. v. Railroad Commission of Texas, et al., No. D-1-GN-20-003795, Texas 53rd Jud. Dist., Travis Co.)....