diff --git a/gulpfile.js b/gulpfile.js
index 5853cf68b9..8c22aeb9f7 100644
--- a/gulpfile.js
+++ b/gulpfile.js
@@ -8,15 +8,6 @@
 
 'use strict';
 
-// THIS CHECK SHOULD BE THE FIRST THING IN THIS FILE
-// This is to ensure that we catch env issues before we error while requiring other dependencies.
-const engines = require('./package.json').engines;
-require('./tools/check-environment')({
-  requiredNodeVersion: engines.node,
-  requiredNpmVersion: engines.npm,
-  requiredYarnVersion: engines.yarn
-});
-
 const gulp = require('gulp');
 
 // See `tools/gulp-tasks/README.md` for information about task loading.
@@ -30,7 +21,6 @@ function loadTask(fileName, taskName) {
 gulp.task('source-map-test', loadTask('source-map-test'));
 gulp.task('changelog', loadTask('changelog'));
 gulp.task('changelog:zonejs', loadTask('changelog-zonejs'));
-gulp.task('check-env', () => {/* this is a noop because the env test ran already above */});
 gulp.task('cldr:extract', loadTask('cldr', 'extract'));
 gulp.task('cldr:download', loadTask('cldr', 'download'));
 gulp.task('cldr:gen-closure-locale', loadTask('cldr', 'closure'));
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index e991a3abd1..58dded61d6 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
     "/ ": "",
     "preinstall": "node tools/yarn/check-yarn.js",
     "postinstall": "husky install && node scripts/webdriver-manager-update.js && node --preserve-symlinks --preserve-symlinks-main ./tools/postinstall-patches.js",
-    "check-env": "gulp check-env",
     "test-ivy-aot": "bazelisk test --config=ivy --build_tag_filters=-no-ivy-aot,-fixme-ivy-aot --test_tag_filters=-no-ivy-aot,-fixme-ivy-aot",
     "test-non-ivy": "bazelisk test --build_tag_filters=-ivy-only --test_tag_filters=-ivy-only",
     "test-fixme-ivy-aot": "bazelisk test --config=ivy --build_tag_filters=-no-ivy-aot --test_tag_filters=-no-ivy-aot",
diff --git a/tools/check-environment.js b/tools/check-environment.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 764f40592b..0000000000
--- a/tools/check-environment.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,114 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * @license
- * Copyright Google LLC All Rights Reserved.
- *
- * Use of this source code is governed by an MIT-style license that can be
- * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.io/license
- */
-
-/* !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-   !!!                                                                                   !!!
-   !!!  This file is special in that it must be able to execute with wrong Node version  !!!
-   !!!  or even when node_modules are missing.                                           !!!
-   !!!                                                                                   !!!
-   !!!  Do not depend on Node4+ features or presence of npm packages here.               !!!
-   !!!                                                                                   !!!
-   !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! */
-
-'use strict';
-
-var exec = require('child_process').exec;
-var checkNodeModules;
-var semver;
-var issues = [];
-
-try {
-  semver = require('semver');
-} catch (e) {
-  issues.push('Looks like you are missing some npm dependencies. Run: `yarn install`');
-}
-
-if (issues.length) {
-  printWarning(issues);
-  console.error(
-      'Your environment doesn\'t provide the prerequisite dependencies.\n' +
-      'Please fix the issues listed above and then rerun the gulp command.\n' +
-      'Check out https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/docs/DEVELOPER.md for more info.');
-  process.exit(1);
-}
-
-// wrap in try/catch in case someone requires from within that file
-try {
-  checkNodeModules = require('./npm/check-node-modules.js');
-} catch (e) {
-  issues.push('Looks like you are missing some npm dependencies. Run: `yarn install`');
-  throw e;
-} finally {
-  // print warnings and move on, the next steps will likely fail, but hey, we warned them.
-  printWarning(issues);
-}
-
-if (require.main === module) {
-  // we are running this script directly so just run checkEnvironment against the main angular
-  // package.json
-  var engines = require(__dirname + '/../package.json').engines;
-  checkEnvironment({
-    requiredNodeVersion: engines.node,
-    requiredNpmVersion: engines.npm,
-    requiredYarnVersion: engines.yarn
-  });
-}
-
-function checkEnvironment(reqs) {
-  exec('yarn --version', function(yarnErr, yarnStdout) {
-    var foundNodeVersion = process.version;
-    var foundYarnVersion = !yarnErr && semver.clean(yarnStdout);
-    var issues = [];
-
-    if (!semver.satisfies(foundNodeVersion, reqs.requiredNodeVersion)) {
-      issues.push(
-          'You are running unsupported node version. Found: ' + foundNodeVersion +
-          ' Expected: ' + reqs.requiredNodeVersion + '. Use nvm to update your node version.');
-    }
-
-    if (yarnErr) {
-      issues.push(
-          'You don\'t have yarn globally installed. This is required because we use yarn to ' +
-          'ensure that we all use the exact same npm dependencies. Installation instructions: ' +
-          'https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/install/');
-    } else if (!semver.satisfies(foundYarnVersion, reqs.requiredYarnVersion)) {
-      issues.push(
-          'You are running an unsupported yarn version. Found: ' + foundYarnVersion +
-          ' Expected: ' + reqs.requiredYarnVersion + '. This is required because we use yarn to ' +
-          'ensure that we all use the exact same npm dependencies. Installation instructions: ' +
-          'https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/install/');
-    }
-
-    if (!checkNodeModules()) {
-      issues.push(
-          'Your node_modules directory is stale or out of sync with yarn.lock. Run: yarn install');
-    }
-
-    printWarning(issues);
-  });
-}
-
-function printWarning(issues) {
-  if (!issues.length) return;
-
-  console.warn('');
-  console.warn('!'.repeat(110));
-  console.warn('!!!  Your environment is not in a good shape. Following issues were found:');
-  issues.forEach(function(issue) {
-    console.warn('!!!   - ' + issue);
-  });
-  console.warn('!'.repeat(110));
-  console.warn('');
-
-  if (process.env.CI) {
-    process.exit(1);
-  }
-}
-
-
-module.exports = checkEnvironment;