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“Many Americans remember April 8 this year for the once-in-a-lifetime eclipse that swept across the country, but for Tony Spaniola, the true ‘generational milestone’ came two days later.
On April 10, Spaniola stood among a handful of fellow activists in an ornate White House office, jubilantly glued to a television screen showing officials from the Environmental Protection Agency announcing the first-ever limits on so-called ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water.
‘It was truly like an out-of-body experience, like I cannot believe,’ the clean-water advocate remembered thinking.
‘A few years ago, I couldn’t get anybody to talk to me. But now, here I am in the White House watching this. It’s really happening,’ said Spaniola, a 66-year-old attorney from suburban Detroit.”…