diff --git a/ci/environment-downstream.yml b/ci/environment-downstream.yml
index d09f72df6..7b02e61ed 100644
--- a/ci/environment-downstream.yml
+++ b/ci/environment-downstream.yml
@@ -5,4 +5,3 @@ dependencies:
   - python=3.11
   - pip:
       - git+https://github.com/dask/dask
-      - git+https://github.com/dask/dask-expr
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d4d9f49f5..9c2355625 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ test_full = [
 ]
 test_downstream = [
     "dask[dataframe,test]",
-    "dask-expr",
     "moto[server]>4,<5",
     "pytest-timeout",
     "xarray",