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2017
Riverkeeper Blog - Happy 10th Anniversary to the SWIM Coalition in NYC
Courthouse News - NYC Beachgoers Beware, EPA Hit With Sprawling Sewage Suit
NRDC Expert Blog - We're in Court, as EPA, NY State, NYC Fail on Clean Water
Queens Chronicle - Envisioning Cleaner Flushing Bay Waters
2016
City Limits - Stormwater is New Challenge to City's Clean Water Plans
City Limits - City and State Remain at Impasse Over Clean Water Moves
2015
Riverkeeper - SWIM Coalition Honors Carter Strickland
2014
City Limits - Critics Slam City Plan to Reduce Sewage Spills
NRDC Switchboard - Is NYC Content to Lead the Nation in Raw Sewage Discharges?
Waterfront Alliance - NYC Council Talks Turkey with the SWIM Coalition
JLC Online - NYC Adopting Green Remedies for Stormwater Runoff
NY League of Conservation Voters - Policy Forum on Green Infrastructure
Times Ledger - Boaters Battle Flushing Bay Pollution
Inhabitat - Apply for NYC Green Room Tax Abatement
SWIM - NYC's Green Past, Present, and Future
2013
Town-Village - Last Paddle of the Season at Stuy Cove
Deep Root - Green Roofs Certified Wildlife Habitats
2012
City Atlas - Manhattan's East Side Waterfront Gets Kayaks
Capital New York - Gray and Green: The Story of a Big-City Sewer System that Worked Too Well
HighView Creations - Highview Creations and SWIM Take on NYC Green Roof Tax Credit
2011
Huffington Post - On World Water Day, Splashing for a Swimmable NYC
PBS - With Public Lab, A Camera Flies in Brooklyn to Monitor Pollution
Human Impacts Institute - Poop in the Water and Community Awareness: HII and SWIM
CS Monitor - Green Solutions for NYC's Overflowing Sewers
Alive Structures - July SWIM Meeting
Alive Structures - Sewage in NY's Rivers
Local Ecologist - How to: Sustainable Parks and Open Spaces
2010
WNYC - NY Looks to Philadelphia for Ideas on Sewer Overflow Issues
Friends of Brook Park - Presentation at SWIM
Green Home NYC - Mind in the Gutter
Green Roofs - Take a SWIM Coalition Green Roof Tax Credit Survey
Archidose - Minds in the Gutter, Recap
2009
Green Roofs Awards of Excellence - SWIM Receives 2009 Civic Award of Excellence: Organization
2008
Observer - Sustainable South Bronx: Helping The Bronx Become a Sustainable Community
Fordham - Solving a Crisis: Water Quality & Storm Water Infrastructure in NYC
Atlantic Yards Report - Will Bloomberg's PlaNYC 2030 Survive his Mayoralty? Should it?
Tree Hugger - Advocating a Sustainable Stormwater Plan for NYC
2007
Sustainable Flatbush - Stormwater Infrastructure Matters
New York Times - Opinion: Pipe Dreams