The sun has been associated with cancer.  Spam has been associated with cancer.  Coffee has some carcinogens as well as wine and beer.  

It's not the reporting that it the problem, it's the penalties that come along with it it.  Just because someone buys a certain amount, it has no scientific significance if you only use a pound of it.  Sometimes you have to purchase a certain amount because of the way it's sold.  It's a meaningless concept.  

Calculate the numbers yourself of the active ingredients too if you are willing to think critically about it.  I pulled the numbers that's listed and if that amount, 9.89 tons, was sprayed daily on Kauai in 2013, it amounts to 6 M&M candies spread over an acre!  Is that a huge amount? Nope, nope, nope.

The Washington, DC based Center for Food Safety has followers who won't do math or even look up the claims.  They love rhetoric and repetition, not facts.