(August 4, 2023, 1:02 PM EDT) -- WHEELING, W.Va. — Landowners have filed a brief in West Virginia federal court arguing that it should deny a hydraulic fracturing operator’s motion to dismiss the third amended complaint in an abandoned wells case on grounds that the motion is “vexatious” and the company is attempting to “escape [its] common law obligations to plug and remediate abandoned gas wells” on his properties....