diff --git a/lib/environment-helper.js b/lib/environment-helper.js
index 6d864390..1abbde13 100644
--- a/lib/environment-helper.js
+++ b/lib/environment-helper.js
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-const path = require('path')
-require('dotenv').config({ path: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' ? path.resolve('/etc', 'lamassu', '.env') : path.resolve(__dirname, '../.env') })
+require('dotenv').config()
diff --git a/lib/migrate-options.js b/lib/migrate-options.js
index 2ec6f29c..07ba83fb 100644
--- a/lib/migrate-options.js
+++ b/lib/migrate-options.js
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ function updateOptionBasepath (result, optionName) {
 async function run () {
   // load current opts
   const options = load().opts
-  const shouldMigrate = !fs.existsSync(process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' ? path.resolve('/etc', 'lamassu', '.env') : path.resolve(__dirname, '../.env'))
+  const shouldMigrate = !fs.existsSync(path.resolve(__dirname, '../.env'))
 
   // write the resulting .env
   if (shouldMigrate) {
diff --git a/tools/set-env-var.js b/tools/set-env-var.js
index ba736875..8aa5f0d0 100644
--- a/tools/set-env-var.js
+++ b/tools/set-env-var.js
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ const os = require('os')
 const path = require('path')
 
 const setEnvVariable = (key, value) => {
-  const ENV_PATH = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' ? path.resolve('/etc', 'lamassu', '.env') : path.resolve(__dirname, '../.env')
+  const ENV_PATH = path.resolve(__dirname, '../.env')
   const ENV_VARIABLES = fs.readFileSync(ENV_PATH, 'utf-8').split(os.EOL)
   const target = ENV_VARIABLES.indexOf(ENV_VARIABLES.find(line => line.match(new RegExp(`^${key}=`))))