diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 3470ea20..525e4343 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ source "http://rubygems.org"
 
 gemspec
 
+gem 'dotenv', :github => 'bkeepers/dotenv', :branch => '0.7'
+
 platform :mingw do
   gem "win32console", "~> 1.3.0"
 end
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 02cf254e..a14c4453 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -1,7 +1,15 @@
+GIT
+  remote: git://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv.git
+  revision: bd139d3c2e627c4f5958542de50a1ae7038f0f8d
+  branch: 0.7
+  specs:
+    dotenv (0.7.0)
+
 PATH
   remote: .
   specs:
     foreman (0.62.0)
+      dotenv (>= 0.7)
       thor (>= 0.13.6)
 
 GEM
@@ -52,6 +60,7 @@ PLATFORMS
 
 DEPENDENCIES
   aws-s3
+  dotenv!
   fakefs (~> 0.3.2)
   foreman!
   posix-spawn (~> 0.3.6)
diff --git a/foreman.gemspec b/foreman.gemspec
index c258fc13..b49e14fa 100644
--- a/foreman.gemspec
+++ b/foreman.gemspec
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |gem|
   gem.files << "man/foreman.1"
 
   gem.add_dependency 'thor', '>= 0.13.6'
+  gem.add_dependency 'dotenv', '>= 0.7'
 
   if ENV["PLATFORM"] == "java"
     gem.add_dependency "posix-spawn", "~> 0.3.6"
diff --git a/lib/foreman/engine.rb b/lib/foreman/engine.rb
index 7463e53c..f9e0a7eb 100644
--- a/lib/foreman/engine.rb
+++ b/lib/foreman/engine.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 require "foreman"
-require "foreman/env"
 require "foreman/process"
 require "foreman/procfile"
+require "dotenv"
 require "tempfile"
 require "timeout"
 require "fileutils"
@@ -172,9 +172,7 @@ def load_procfile(filename)
   # @param [String] filename  A .env file to load into the environment
   #
   def load_env(filename)
-    Foreman::Env.new(filename).entries do |name, value|
-      @env[name] = value
-    end
+    @env.update Dotenv::Environment.new(filename)
   end
 
   # Send a signal to all processes started by this +Engine+
diff --git a/lib/foreman/env.rb b/lib/foreman/env.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b65514e..00000000
--- a/lib/foreman/env.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-require "foreman"
-
-class Foreman::Env
-
-  attr_reader :entries
-
-  def initialize(filename)
-    @entries = File.read(filename).gsub("\r\n","\n").split("\n").inject({}) do |ax, line|
-      if line =~ /\A([A-Za-z_0-9]+)=(.*)\z/
-        key = $1
-        case val = $2
-          # Remove single quotes
-          when /\A'(.*)'\z/ then ax[key] = $1
-          # Remove double quotes and unescape string preserving newline characters
-          when /\A"(.*)"\z/ then ax[key] = $1.gsub('\n', "\n").gsub(/\\(.)/, '\1')
-          else ax[key] = val
-        end
-      end
-      ax
-    end
-  end
-
-  def entries
-    @entries.each do |key, value|
-      yield key, value
-    end
-  end
-
-end