diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
index 057ec7628c..760be89fff 100644
--- a/SConstruct
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -67,14 +67,7 @@ elif platform_arg == "javascript":
 elif os.name == "nt" and methods.get_cmdline_bool("use_mingw", False):
     custom_tools = ["mingw"]
 
-# We let SCons build its default ENV as it includes OS-specific things which we don't
-# want to have to pull in manually.
-# Then we prepend PATH to make it take precedence, while preserving SCons' own entries.
-env_base = Environment(tools=custom_tools)
-env_base.PrependENVPath("PATH", os.getenv("PATH"))
-env_base.PrependENVPath("PKG_CONFIG_PATH", os.getenv("PKG_CONFIG_PATH"))
-if "TERM" in os.environ:  # Used for colored output.
-    env_base["ENV"]["TERM"] = os.environ["TERM"]
+env_base = Environment(ENV = os.environ, tools=custom_tools)
 
 env_base.disabled_modules = []
 env_base.use_ptrcall = False