More than a dozen American Indian tribes and an environmental advocacy group are heading to court to fight a Federal Communications Commission move that could place wireless equipment on culturally or environmentally sensitive lands.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit March 15 will hear oral argument in a case challenging a 2018 order that lets wireless carriers bypass historic preservation and environmental reviews for deploying small cell equipment on nontribal lands. Small-cell equipment generally consists...

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