InsideClimate: Dozens of leading scientists in the fields of climate change, public health and ecology have told the State Department that the findings of its draft assessment of the impacts of the Keystone XL pipeline are "without merit in many critical areas." In unusually blunt advice, they urged the Obama administration to reject the pipeline as not being in the U.S. national interest. "How is importing the world's highest carbon content crude consistent with national policy goals?" they asked. "Now is the...