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The GOP-led Senate voted to strip California of its ability to phase out sales of diesel-powered heavy-duty trucks and cut emissions of a contributor to smog.

The moves followed a 51-44 Senate vote to take away the state’s waiver to set its own emissions standards for cars, light trucks and SUVs. That nullifies a 2022 measure adopted by 11 other states to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035 that has been a key driver of electric-vehicle investment, the WSJ’s Lindsay Wise and Sharon Terlep write. The resolution heads to President Trump for his signature. The Senate voted 51 to 45 to revoke a waiver for California’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule requiring the sale of a growing number of zero-emission, heavy-duty trucks each year. In a third, 49-46 vote, senators passed a resolution stopping the state from forcing manufacturers to curb nitrogen-oxide, or NOx, emissions from heavy-duty diesel engines. California already in January had dropped a request that would have allowed it to mandate the purchase of battery-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell trucks, believing the Trump administration would deny it.

State officials vowed to sue the Trump administration over the vote on car emissions. The American Trucking Associations called the votes a victory for the industry.

• The tax-and-spending bill passed by the House delivers a potentially fatal blow to the struggling rooftop-solar industry. (WSJ)

A live-events logistics company that supported Taylor Swift’s “Eras” Tour and got Metallica to Antarctica in 2013–making it the first band to play all seven continents–was bought for more than $1 billion.

GCL, or Global Critical Logistics, was acquired by private-equity firm Providence Equity Partners from fellow buyout company ATL Partners, the Journal’s Ben Glickman writes. GCL provides core logistics services for concert tours, movie and TV productions and sporting events. It has set the stage for Beyoncé and Paul McCartney and has agreed to help at the 2026 FIFA World Cup to be co-hosted by the U.S., Mexico and Canada. It got its start in 1978 when predecessor company Rock-It Cargo served the likes of Led Zeppelin, Queen and Bruce Springsteen. The purchase comes as live events have exploded in popularity since pandemic restrictions were lifted, with a record summer concert season on tap.

A 135-meter containership ran aground early Thursday morning close to a house on the shore of Norway’s Trondheim fjord. No oil spills or injuries were reported. The home’s owner said he slept through the incident and was awoken by a neighbor. (The Guardian)

G-7 finance chiefs agreed on a communiqué, but compromised on global trade wording. (WSJ)

India’s economy appears to be in shape to withstand the headwinds posed by trade policy shifts, the nation’s central bank said in a report. (WSJ)

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expects 13 to 19 Atlantic storms, with six to 10 reaching hurricane-strength winds, in the six-month storm season starting June 1. (WSJ)

Taiwan will commission new army drone units and naval sea drones this year to prepare for a potential Chinese invasion. (WSJ)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un lambasted officials after a much-touted new warship capsized in a botched launch. (WSJ)

Nike said it will raise prices on certain items by June 1 and resume selling footwear and apparel on Amazon for the first time since 2019. (Barron’s)

Ralph Lauren will raise prices more than previously planned to offset tariffs as it posted higher-than-expected quarterly earnings. (WSJ)

Stellantis will delay production of its 2026 base-model electric Dodge Charger Daytona at its plant in Ontario while it assesses the effects of tariffs. (WSJ)

Chinese automaker BYD sold more electric vehicles in Europe than Tesla for the first time. (WSJ)

The Department of Transportation is promising to take truck drivers who can’t speak English off U.S. roads, which could delay loads and tighten truck capacity. (Journal of Commerce)

The U.K. transferred sovereignty of the Indian Ocean’s Chagos Islands to Mauritius, though it will retain control of Diego Garcia, which hosts a large U.S. military base. (Associated Press)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers allocated $33 million for a project to widen and deepen Texas’s Houston Ship Channel. (TradeWinds)

A unit of Mediterranean Shipping renewed a terminal lease for 10 years at Florida’s Port Everglades. (The Loadstar)

The spot rate to ship cargo by air from Hong Kong to the U.S. rose by more than 40 cents a kilogram since the start of this week to over $4.50 per kilogram, following a drop in prices as U.S. tariffs hit. (Air Cargo News)

• A more humanlike generation of customer-service voice bots is here, spurred by advances in artificial intelligence and a flood of cash.
• PepsiCo is pushing back its climate goals. Its sustainability chief says the world “was a very different place” when it set its targets.
• An AI-generated PR pitch succeeded in generating attention—and hostility.
• Former audit regulators, academics and investors are preparing to fight the proposed elimination of an accounting oversight board created after Enron.

Mark R. Long is editor of WSJ Logistics Report. Reach him at mark.long@wsj.com. Follow the WSJ Logistics Report team on LinkedIn: Mark R. Long, Liz Young and Paul Berger.