The University of Houston Main Campus participates in an emissions banking and trading
(EBT) program through the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The MECT Program
is a market-based cap-and-trade program that implements an annual nitrogen oxides
emission cap for applicable facilities in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria ozone nonattainment
area. The University's steam-generating boilers are currently monitored for compliance
with this program and any funds generated are used by the University.