Help. Prisma ORM is not loading environment variables

When I run

db:deploy

db:deploy

. It always errors saying DATABASE_URL was not found if the DATABASE_URL is not present on a .env file.
I've run

echo $DATABASE_URL

echo $DATABASE_URL

it returns

postgres://pos...

postgres://pos...

(the correct DATABASE_URL).
If this same

DATABASE_URL

DATABASE_URL

is present on a

.env

.env

file. It works correctly.
I'm using the folder schemas, so I tried to make the schema path explicit like this:"

"db:deploy": "prisma migrate deploy --schema ./prisma/schema"

"db:deploy": "prisma migrate deploy --schema ./prisma/schema"

But this also fails