Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has said that wind farms are causing the deaths of whales while she discussed environmentalism on Sean Hannity's show on Tuesday.

The pair were discussing the recent train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and questioned why there were not more outspoken comments from environmentalists or politicians who have voiced their concerns over climate change.

Hannity said: "Some people talk about, for example, wind turbines contributing to the deaths of whales and bird life etc, no one seems to want to talk about that.

"Then you have this toxic chemical mess in Ohio, in Palestine, that we reported on earlier in the program and I don't hear anything from the new green deal climate alarmist cult about what is an environmental disaster by every measure, why?"

A clip of Greene's comments has also gone viral on Twitter and has been viewed more than 100,000 times.

Greene replied: "Well I am not sure, I don't know why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) isn't dressed in white and crying for the dead whales that keep washing up on the beach from wind farms that are being placed all over the ocean."

This comment was made in reference to false claims made against the New York representative that suggested she staged a photoshoot in Texas to cry in a parking lot at detained migrant children.
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According to a CNN fact check, Ocasio-Cortez was with a group of protesters outside a tent city shelter in Texas in 2019 and had never spoken to the photojournalist who took multiple shots that day, including of AOC.

Greene continued: "People are calling the alarms over how [wind farms] are not only killing unknown thousands of birds species but also causing whales to beach themselves at record numbers."

Newsweek has contacted Marjorie Taylor Greene for comment.