(January 18, 2017, 3:23 PM EST) -- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A federal judge in New Mexico on Jan. 13 denied environmental advocacy groups the right to intervene in a federal-land-leasing lawsuit brought by hydraulic fracturing companies against the U.S. government because the groups failed to show that their interests were not already adequately represented in the litigation (Western Energy Alliance v. Sally Jewell, et al., No. 16-912, D. N.M.; 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5575)....