Associated Press: The federal government is asking a judge to break apart a sweeping lawsuit that accuses federal land mangers of putting grazing and energy interests ahead of preserving sage grouse across millions of acres of public land across the West. The lawsuit, filed last year in U.S. District Court here, challenges 16 separate land use plans developed by the Bureau of Land Management in recent years to manage about 25 million acres in Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and northern …