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This study aims to find out, describe the direction and implementation of the Padang Panjang City Government policy in environmental protection and management. Based on Law No. 32 of 2009 concerning Environmental Protection and Management, each region must develop a plan for regional environmental protection and management (RPPLH) through Regional Regulations (perda) and supported by various environmental policies that must be implemented to improve environmental quality in Padang Panjang City. In the implementation of the public policy process is a very strategic stage, because the success and failure of a policy depends on how the policy can be realized and meet the expected outcomes, this study will also recognize the supporting and inhibiting factors of the implementation of the Padang Panjang City government policy in the environmental field . The method used in this study is a qualitative method using a descriptive approach to describe specifically and in-depth about the implementation of environmental policies carried out by the Padang Panjang City Government starting from the processes and factors that influence it. Data collection techniques using in-depth interviews, observation and documentation studies in order to get comprehensive information as data in describing the phenomena that occur in the research location. The research findings illustrate that there are four factors that influence the implementation of environmental protection and management policies in Padang Panjang City, namely (1) communication factors, (2) resource factors, (3) disposition factors and (4) bureaucratic structure factors. Of the four factors, there are two effective factors, namely communication and bureaucratic structure, and two factors that are not yet effective, namely the disposition factors and bureaucratic structure factors