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I came across this issue and this didn’t add it to the $_ENV variable for me. I was however able to access it using getenv('VARIABLE')
I just tested this, and it looks like you simply need to restart FPM with:
service php5-fpm restart
for it to take effect. I’m not entirely sure why, but that seems be the case.