diff --git a/opm/parser/eclipse/Parser/ParseContext.hpp b/opm/parser/eclipse/Parser/ParseContext.hpp
index 2d1133edc..5264a7829 100644
--- a/opm/parser/eclipse/Parser/ParseContext.hpp
+++ b/opm/parser/eclipse/Parser/ParseContext.hpp
@@ -79,7 +79,9 @@ namespace Opm {
     class ParseContext {
     public:
         ParseContext();
+        explicit ParseContext(InputError::Action default_action);
         explicit ParseContext(const std::vector<std::pair<std::string , InputError::Action>>& initial);
+
         Message::type handleError( const std::string& errorKey, MessageContainer& msgContainer, const std::string& msg ) const;
         bool hasKey(const std::string& key) const;
         ParseContext  withKey(const std::string& key, InputError::Action action = InputError::WARN) const;
diff --git a/src/opm/parser/eclipse/Parser/ParseContext.cpp b/src/opm/parser/eclipse/Parser/ParseContext.cpp
index a07e2dec9..aefe7342e 100644
--- a/src/opm/parser/eclipse/Parser/ParseContext.cpp
+++ b/src/opm/parser/eclipse/Parser/ParseContext.cpp
@@ -56,6 +56,17 @@ namespace Opm {
     }
 
 
+    /*
+      This constructor will initialize all actions to @default_action. The
+      environment variables will be used.
+    */
+
+    ParseContext::ParseContext(InputError::Action default_action) {
+        initDefault();
+        update(default_action);
+        initEnv();
+    }
+
     void ParseContext::initDefault() {
         addKey(PARSE_UNKNOWN_KEYWORD);
         addKey(PARSE_RANDOM_TEXT);
diff --git a/tests/parser/ParseContextTests.cpp b/tests/parser/ParseContextTests.cpp
index 89ccbed5a..a6373ef15 100644
--- a/tests/parser/ParseContextTests.cpp
+++ b/tests/parser/ParseContextTests.cpp
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <stdexcept>
+#include <stdlib.h>
 #include <iostream>
 #include <boost/filesystem.hpp>
 #define BOOST_TEST_MODULE ParseContextTests
@@ -406,3 +407,13 @@ BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE( test_too_much_data ) {
     parseContext.update(ParseContext::PARSE_EXTRA_DATA , InputError::IGNORE );
     auto deck = parser.parseString( deckString , parseContext );
 }
+
+
+BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(test_1arg_constructor) {
+    setenv("OPM_ERRORS_IGNORE", "PARSE_RANDOM_SLASH", 1);
+    {
+        ParseContext ctx(InputError::WARN);
+        BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(ctx.get(ParseContext::UNSUPPORTED_COMPORD_TYPE), InputError::WARN);
+        BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(ctx.get(ParseContext::PARSE_RANDOM_SLASH), InputError::IGNORE);
+    }
+}