Oil Rigs

Though this hurricane will likely only hit the oil industry with a glancing blow, the industry won't always be able to weather the storm.

A conversation with Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson of the firm Blue Latitudes, which consults on projects where retired rigs are transformed into reefs and hotels.

But even as environmentalists celebrate the decommissioning of Platform Holly, they remind state officials and residents that California remains an oil state.

A federal program urges the fast removal of “idle iron” oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. But in an unexpected twist, some environmentalists want the rigs to remain as a home for fish.