diff --git a/images/pyspark-notebook/Dockerfile b/images/pyspark-notebook/Dockerfile
index 212e3a5502..f64bb75db6 100644
--- a/images/pyspark-notebook/Dockerfile
+++ b/images/pyspark-notebook/Dockerfile
@@ -34,12 +34,6 @@ ARG scala_version
 # But it seems to be slower, that's why we use the recommended site for download
 ARG spark_download_url="https://dlcdn.apache.org/spark/"
 
-# Configure Spark
-ENV SPARK_VERSION="${spark_version}" \
-    HADOOP_VERSION="${hadoop_version}" \
-    SCALA_VERSION="${scala_version}" \
-    SPARK_DOWNLOAD_URL="${spark_download_url}"
-
 ENV SPARK_HOME=/usr/local/spark
 ENV PATH="${PATH}:${SPARK_HOME}/bin"
 ENV SPARK_OPTS="--driver-java-options=-Xms1024M --driver-java-options=-Xmx4096M --driver-java-options=-Dlog4j.logLevel=info"
@@ -47,7 +41,11 @@ ENV SPARK_OPTS="--driver-java-options=-Xms1024M --driver-java-options=-Xmx4096M
 COPY setup_spark.py /opt/setup-scripts/
 
 # Setup Spark
-RUN /opt/setup-scripts/setup_spark.py
+RUN SPARK_VERSION="${spark_version}" \
+    HADOOP_VERSION="${hadoop_version}" \
+    SCALA_VERSION="${scala_version}" \
+    SPARK_DOWNLOAD_URL="${spark_download_url}" \
+    /opt/setup-scripts/setup_spark.py
 
 # Configure IPython system-wide
 COPY ipython_kernel_config.py "/etc/ipython/"
diff --git a/tagging/images_hierarchy.py b/tagging/images_hierarchy.py
index f4145876c7..8c3e3fd384 100644
--- a/tagging/images_hierarchy.py
+++ b/tagging/images_hierarchy.py
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 )
 from tagging.taggers import (
     DateTagger,
-    HadoopVersionTagger,
     JavaVersionTagger,
     JuliaVersionTagger,
     JupyterHubVersionTagger,
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ class ImageDescription:
     ),
     "pyspark-notebook": ImageDescription(
         parent_image="scipy-notebook",
-        taggers=[SparkVersionTagger(), HadoopVersionTagger(), JavaVersionTagger()],
+        taggers=[SparkVersionTagger(), JavaVersionTagger()],
         manifests=[SparkInfoManifest()],
     ),
     "all-spark-notebook": ImageDescription(
diff --git a/tagging/taggers.py b/tagging/taggers.py
index daf987b1e1..1aa6705dae 100644
--- a/tagging/taggers.py
+++ b/tagging/taggers.py
@@ -12,18 +12,6 @@ def _get_program_version(container: Container, program: str) -> str:
     return DockerRunner.run_simple_command(container, cmd=f"{program} --version")
 
 
-def _get_env_variable(container: Container, variable: str) -> str:
-    env = DockerRunner.run_simple_command(
-        container,
-        cmd="env",
-        print_result=False,
-    ).split()
-    for env_entry in env:
-        if env_entry.startswith(variable):
-            return env_entry[len(variable) + 1 :]
-    raise KeyError(variable)
-
-
 def _get_pip_package_version(container: Container, package: str) -> str:
     PIP_VERSION_PREFIX = "Version: "
 
@@ -136,12 +124,6 @@ def tag_value(container: Container) -> str:
         return "spark-" + version_line.split(" ")[-1]
 
 
-class HadoopVersionTagger(TaggerInterface):
-    @staticmethod
-    def tag_value(container: Container) -> str:
-        return "hadoop-" + _get_env_variable(container, "HADOOP_VERSION")
-
-
 class JavaVersionTagger(TaggerInterface):
     @staticmethod
     def tag_value(container: Container) -> str: