Yes, the same Senator Inhofe (R-OK) who famously called climate change "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people" will serve as ranking member on the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee, with jurisdiction over the Endangered Species Act and other legacy environmental laws.  Fortunately, Senator Inhofe (2005 and 2006 League of Conservation Voters voting score = 0%) proved generally ineffective when his party was in the majority, unable to browbeat Senator Chaffee (a genuinely pro-conservation Republican) into toeing the party line on critical Endangered Species Act, Clean Air Act, and other votes.  Senator Inhofe, in one of his last act's as chairman, published the undoubtedly compelling A Skeptics Guide to Debunking Global Warming Alarmism, Hot & Cold Media Spin Cycle: A Challenge to Journalists Who Cover Global Warming.  At some point, one hopes, the Republican party leadership will figure out that a majority of Americans really are pro-conservation.