Breaking up is hard to do.

Nearly 100 old ships, some dating from World War II, are moored together in the James River in Virginia. The Ghost Fleet, as it's called, was once valuable as scrap, but current laws and environmental regulations make shipbreaking uneconomical, and the U.S. Congress will not vote the necessary subsidies. High winds have broken some vessels loose, to drift in shipping lanes or run aground on nearby beaches. Some of the ships are leaking; together, they hold nearly as...