Mealey's (November 3, 2022, 2:59 PM EDT) -- WHEELING, W.Va. — A hydraulic fracturing operator has filed a reply brief in West Virginia federal court arguing that it should dismiss a putative class action by landowners who sued over abandoned wells, contending that the lawsuit fails because the company has established as a matter of law that it has not violated the well plugging duty codified in West Virginia law....