The growing health crisis linked to 9/11 air exposure has driven experts, lawyers and politicians to push for better compensation for victims and families.

In November 2001, the concentration of carcinogens benzene and asbestos was still spiking, continuing into 2002, documents reportedly show.

Some 170,000 pages of documents released by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration show city and federal officials were aware of health risks from reopening lower Manhattan after…