from a corporate article regarding the election shift this week:

Nowhere is the change starker than with Boxer's impending chairwomanship of the Environment and Public Works Committee, where she takes the reins from a conservative Republican who thinks global warming is a hoax.

She vowed to push through global warming legislation next year, taking California's landmark model nationwide -- a move Feinstein proposed in a major speech in August in San Francisco.
SF Chron

That Senator who thinks global warming is a hoax is the infamous Senator Inhofe, who used his national chairmain soapbox, along with the FBI, to declare that ALF, ELF, and even mainstream environmental groups were literally public enemy #1 in the U.S. Numerous hearings were held.

Could this mean the heat will be off on this overblown puffed-chest-law-and-order attack on environment and animal rights activists? Or will the new Democratic congress continue to encourage this behavior by the US justice department?

A bit of background:
Resisting the Green Scare: International and Local Events
Lessons from COINTELPRO
Prison Letter Writing Café in Berkeley
The Government's "Case" Against Rod Coronado
One Auburn Eco-Defense Arrestee Allowed Bail
11 Indicted in Latest Round of FBI Environmental Witch Hunt
FBI Arrests Six People for Alleged ELF and ALF Actions
Nine Activists Subpoenaed by Grand Jury in SF
Feds Target Bay Area Activists
FBI says animal and eco-extremists are now top domestic terror threat
Seattle: FBI arrests Animal-rights activist

You get the idea.

Cheer. Then discuss.