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Know what I hate about free markets? The way they make us waste scarce environmental resources.

Wait, did I say free markets? I meant to say Philadelphia labor unions:

This city’s hoped-for bragging rights as home of America’s tallest environmentally friendly building could go down the toilet.

In a city where organized labor is a force to be reckoned with, the plumbers union has been raising a stink about a developer’s plans to install 116 waterless, no-flush urinals in what will be Philadelphia’s biggest skyscraper.

Developer Liberty Property Trust says the urinals would save 1.6 million gallons of water a year at the 57-story Comcast Center, expected to open next year.

But the union put out the word it doesn’t like the idea of waterless urinals _ fewer pipes mean less work.