diff --git a/connect/client/fluent.py b/connect/client/fluent.py
index 75a80f8..359c610 100644
--- a/connect/client/fluent.py
+++ b/connect/client/fluent.py
@@ -5,11 +5,14 @@
 #
 import contextvars
 import threading
+from functools import cache
 from json.decoder import JSONDecodeError
 from typing import Union
 
 import httpx
 import requests
+from httpx._config import Proxy
+from httpx._utils import get_environment_proxies
 from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter
 
 from connect.client.constants import CONNECT_ENDPOINT_URL, CONNECT_SPECS_URL
@@ -237,6 +240,20 @@ def _get_namespace_class(self):
 _SSL_CONTEXT = httpx.create_ssl_context()
 
 
+@cache
+def _get_async_mounts():
+    """
+    This code based on how httpx.Client mounts proxies from environment.
+    This is cached to allow reusing the created transport objects.
+    """
+    return {
+        key: None
+        if url is None
+        else httpx.AsyncHTTPTransport(verify=_SSL_CONTEXT, proxy=Proxy(url=url))
+        for key, url in get_environment_proxies().items()
+    }
+
+
 class AsyncConnectClient(_ConnectClientBase, AsyncClientMixin):
     """
     Create a new instance of the AsyncConnectClient.
@@ -274,12 +291,14 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
     def session(self):
         value = self._session.get()
         if not value:
-            value = httpx.AsyncClient(
-                transport=_ASYNC_TRANSPORTS.setdefault(
-                    self.endpoint,
-                    httpx.AsyncHTTPTransport(verify=_SSL_CONTEXT),
-                ),
-            )
+            transport = _ASYNC_TRANSPORTS.get(self.endpoint)
+            if not transport:
+                transport = _ASYNC_TRANSPORTS[self.endpoint] = httpx.AsyncHTTPTransport(
+                    verify=_SSL_CONTEXT,
+                )
+            # When passing a transport to httpx a Client/AsyncClient, proxies defined in environment
+            # (like HTTP_PROXY) are ignored, so let's pass them using mounts parameter.
+            value = httpx.AsyncClient(transport=transport, mounts=_get_async_mounts())
             self._session.set(value)
         return value