diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 58c6a13b4..3c8558497 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 ### Changed
 
 - Use per request configuration when cache is disabled [PR #289](https://github.com/3scale/apicast/pull/289)
+- Automatically expose all environment variables starting with `APICAST_` or `THREESCALE_` to nginx [PR #292](https://github.com/3scale/apicast/pull/292)
 
 ### Added
 
diff --git a/apicast/bin/apicast b/apicast/bin/apicast
index fee777416..c600735f8 100755
--- a/apicast/bin/apicast
+++ b/apicast/bin/apicast
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ done
 
 main+=("daemon ${daemon};")
 main+=("worker_processes ${worker_processes};")
+main+=$(printenv | awk '$1 ~ /^(APICAST|THREESCALE)_/ {split($0,env,"="); print "env", env[1] ";"}')
 
 function join_by { local IFS="$1"; shift; echo "$*"; }
 args=$(join_by '' "${args[@]}")
diff --git a/apicast/conf/nginx.conf b/apicast/conf/nginx.conf
index 82c099a06..d8523030c 100644
--- a/apicast/conf/nginx.conf
+++ b/apicast/conf/nginx.conf
@@ -1,20 +1,8 @@
-env THREESCALE_DEPLOYMENT_ENV;
-env THREESCALE_PORTAL_ENDPOINT;
-env THREESCALE_CONFIG_FILE;
-env APICAST_CUSTOM_CONFIG;
-env APICAST_PATH_ROUTING_ENABLED;
-env APICAST_SERVICES;
 env REDIS_HOST;
 env REDIS_PORT;
 env RESOLVER;
-env APICAST_MODULE;
-env APICAST_RESPONSE_CODES;
-env APICAST_MANAGEMENT_API;
 env BACKEND_ENDPOINT_OVERRIDE;
 
-env APICAST_CONFIGURATION_LOADER;
-env APICAST_CONFIGURATION_CACHE;
-
 include ../main.d/*.conf;
 
 error_log /dev/null emerg;