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Journalists covering an Arkansas oil spill in a suburban neighborhood said they were threatened with arrests, kicked out of the disaster site and had to seek permission from ExxonMobil to fly over the evacuated area.

An ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured in Mayflower, Ark., on March 29, causing 22 homes to be evacuated in the small town located north of Little Rock. So far, more than 19,000 barrels of oil have been collected.

A federal district court judge on Friday agreed that the list of private planes potentially used by auto industry executives who traveled to Washington to ask Congress for help should be released, ProPublica reported.

A trade group went to court this week trying to block the Federal Aviation Administration from going forward with a planned Freedom of Information Act release of information about corporate jets, ProPublica reports.