You seem very confused. the regulators here made the legal requirement It's not like an independent set of experts in charge made it. California made it, and

You seem very confused. the regulators here made the legal requirement It's not like an independent set of experts in charge made it. California made it, and in fact, most experts (in the very same article) seem to think it's "pretty rich". The regulators made the legal requirement, so saying "it's good the regulators are doing this because it's a legal requirement" is super-circular logic when the very same regulators made the legal requirement.