diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a32fb0a..6275cba 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 # Master
 
+- Reduce the number of environment variables exposed to `bin/{pre,post}_compile` and other subprocesses (#1011)
 
 # 173 (2020-07-21)
 
diff --git a/bin/compile b/bin/compile
index 89c4051..dd270d8 100755
--- a/bin/compile
+++ b/bin/compile
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@
 set -eo pipefail
 
 # Boostrap the Buildpack Standard Library.
-export BPLOG_PREFIX="buildpack.python"
+# Disable unused env var warning since shellcheck doesn't know about the stdlib.
+# shellcheck disable=2034
+BPLOG_PREFIX="buildpack.python"
 export BUILDPACK_LOG_FILE=${BUILDPACK_LOG_FILE:-/dev/null}
 
 [ "$BUILDPACK_XTRACE" ] && set -o xtrace
@@ -84,16 +86,12 @@ if [[ -f "$BUILD_DIR/Pipfile" ]]; then
     PIP_UPDATE="9.0.2"
 fi
 
-export DEFAULT_PYTHON_STACK PIP_UPDATE
-export PY37 PY36 PY35 PY27 PY34
-
 # Common Problem Warnings:
 # This section creates a temporary file in which to stick the output of `pip install`.
 # The `warnings` subscript then greps through this for common problems and guides
 # the user towards resolution of known issues.
 WARNINGS_LOG=$(mktemp)
-export WARNINGS_LOG
-export RECOMMENDED_PYTHON_VERSION=$DEFAULT_PYTHON_VERSION
+RECOMMENDED_PYTHON_VERSION=$DEFAULT_PYTHON_VERSION
 
 # The buildpack ships with a few executable tools (e.g. pip-grep, etc).
 # This installs them into the path, so we can execute them directly.
@@ -217,8 +215,6 @@ else
   CACHED_PYTHON_STACK=$STACK
 fi
 
-export CACHED_PYTHON_STACK
-
 # Pipenv Python version support.
 # Detect the version of Python requested from a Pipfile (e.g. python_version or python_full_version).
 # Convert it to a runtime.txt file.
diff --git a/bin/default_pythons b/bin/default_pythons
index 4dc00ff..2fe4e10 100755
--- a/bin/default_pythons
+++ b/bin/default_pythons
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
+# Disable unused env var warning, since shellcheck doesn't take into account
+# that this file is sourced. We don't want to use export since it exposes
+# the env vars to subprocesses.
+# shellcheck disable=2034
+
 DEFAULT_PYTHON_VERSION="python-3.6.11"
 LATEST_38="python-3.8.5"
 LATEST_37="python-3.7.8"
@@ -9,13 +14,3 @@ LATEST_34="python-3.4.10"
 LATEST_27="python-2.7.18"
 PYPY_36="pypy3.6-7.3.1"
 PYPY_27="pypy2.7-7.3.1"
-
-export DEFAULT_PYTHON_VERSION \
-    LATEST_38 \
-    LATEST_37 \
-    LATEST_36 \
-    LATEST_35 \
-    LATEST_34 \
-    LATEST_27 \
-    PYPY_36 \
-    PYPY_27
diff --git a/test/fixtures/hooks/bin/post_compile b/test/fixtures/hooks/bin/post_compile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0281f03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fixtures/hooks/bin/post_compile
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+set -euo pipefail
+
+echo "post_compile ran!"
+echo "post_compile env: $(printenv | cut -d '=' -f 1 | sort | xargs)."
diff --git a/test/fixtures/hooks/bin/pre_compile b/test/fixtures/hooks/bin/pre_compile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e9adbc2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fixtures/hooks/bin/pre_compile
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+set -euo pipefail
+
+echo "pre_compile ran!"
+echo "pre_compile env: $(printenv | cut -d '=' -f 1 | sort | xargs)."
diff --git a/test/fixtures/hooks/requirements.txt b/test/fixtures/hooks/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/test/run-features b/test/run-features
index 8982eb0..c50a8c3 100755
--- a/test/run-features
+++ b/test/run-features
@@ -86,6 +86,49 @@ testDontWarnOldDjango() {
   assertCapturedSuccess
 }
 
+testHooks() {
+  # Test that the hooks are called correctly, and that the environment contains
+  # the app's config vars but no unexpected env vars from the buildpack.
+  local env_dir="$(mktmpdir)"
+  echo 'test' > "${env_dir}/SOME_APP_CONFIG_VAR"
+  local expected_env_vars=(
+    _
+    BIN_DIR
+    BUILD_DIR
+    BUILDPACK_LOG_FILE
+    CACHE_DIR
+    C_INCLUDE_PATH
+    CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH
+    ENV_DIR
+    EXPORT_PATH
+    HOME
+    LANG
+    LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+    LIBRARY_PATH
+    OLDPWD
+    PATH
+    PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+    PROFILE_PATH
+    PWD
+    PYTHONUNBUFFERED
+    SHLVL
+    SOME_APP_CONFIG_VAR
+    STACK
+    VENDOR_URL
+  )
+  if [[ "${STACK}" == "cedar-14" || "${STACK}" == "heroku-16" ]]; then
+    # Remove "OLDPWD" from expected_env_vars since for bash <4.4 it's not exported to subshells:
+    # https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-python/pull/1011#issuecomment-665117835
+    read -ra expected_env_vars <<< "${expected_env_vars[@]/OLDPWD/}"
+  fi
+  compile 'hooks' '' "${env_dir}"
+  assertCaptured "pre_compile ran!"
+  assertCaptured "pre_compile env: ${expected_env_vars[*]}."
+  assertCaptured "post_compile ran!"
+  assertCaptured "post_compile env: ${expected_env_vars[*]}."
+  assertCapturedSuccess
+}
+
 pushd $(dirname 0) >/dev/null
 popd >/dev/null