diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index ca84ee8c..60c27dae 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -40,9 +40,6 @@ jobs:
           flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=80 --statistics
 
       - name: Download executables needed for tests
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}  # Needed for downloading executables
-          NLMOD_SUPPRESS_EXE_VERION_CHECK: "True"
         shell: bash -l {0}
         run: |
           python -c "import nlmod; nlmod.util.download_mfbinaries()"
@@ -51,8 +48,6 @@ jobs:
         env:
             NHI_GWO_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.NHI_GWO_USERNAME}}
             NHI_GWO_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.NHI_GWO_PASSWORD}}
-            GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}  # Needed for downloading executables
-            NLMOD_SUPPRESS_EXE_VERION_CHECK: "True"
         run: |
           py.test ./tests -m "not notebooks"
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 67f499d2..f1bbe0eb 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ full = [
 ]
 knmi = ["h5netcdf", "nlmod[grib]"]
 grib = ["cfgrib", "ecmwflibs"]
-test = ["pytest>=7", "pytest-cov", "pytest-dependency"]
+test = ["pytest>=7", "pytest-cov", "pytest-dependency", "pytest-env"]
 nbtest = ["nbformat", "nbconvert>6.4.5"]
 lint = ["flake8", "isort", "black[jupyter]"]
 ci = ["nlmod[full,lint,test,nbtest]", "netCDF4>=1.6.3", "pandas<2.1.0"]
@@ -107,5 +107,6 @@ line-length = 88
 extend-include = ["*.ipynb"]
 
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
+env = ["NLMOD_SUPPRESS_EXE_VERION_CHECK=True"]
 addopts = "--strict-markers --durations=0 --cov-report xml:coverage.xml --cov nlmod -v"
 markers = ["notebooks: run notebooks", "slow: slow tests", "skip: skip tests"]