Bliss was sure it would work, because he’d done the same thing for a stable nearby, he writes. And he knew he’d make a profit, because he got the materials for his road spray by mixing one tankload of oil with six truckloads of waste from a chemical manufacturer. “This chemical manufacturer made its money manufacturing Agent Orange during the Vietnam War,” he writes. “Their waste turned out to be hexachlorophene tainted with dioxin.” After 62 horses died at the stables where Bliss had sprayed, the EPA got on his tail. A decade after he sprayed down the town’s roads, the organization announced the crazy dioxin levels in Times Beach. Bliss dealt with a number of lawsuits, Powell writes, but continues to deny he knew what was in the waste.