sentences:  However, the report did acknowledge that environmental regulations and industrial reforms have had some effect.It was determined that continued environmental reforms were likely to have a large effect on reducing industrial pollution.In a 2007 article about China's pollution problem, the New York Times stated that "Environmental degradation is now so severe, with such stark domestic and international repercussions, that pollution poses not only a major long-term burden on the Chinese public but also an acute political challenge to the ruling Communist Party."