The phrase 'expand regulations' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the process of increasing the number of rules, laws, or restrictions in a specific area. For example, "The government is planning to expand regulations to increase safety in construction sites."
"The last thing they need is a new tax that will increase costs, expand regulations, and drive them out of business".
The report includes recommendations for the EPA to not only beef up enforcement, but also expand regulations to control electronics that -- while benign when intact -- become hazardous upon dismantling, encourage Congress to ratify the Basel Convention, and work with other government agencies to improve oversight of used electronics.
Yesterday, John E. McArdle, chief spokesman for the majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, said that while Mr. Bruno had not had a chance to review Mr. Bloomberg's proposal, "we have not been supportive of efforts to expand regulation in the city".
In the U.K., where Chobani is currently expanding, regulations do not permit a yogurt that isn't actually made in Greece to be called "Greek yogurt"; moreover, yogurts marketed there as "Greek style" sometimes have added gelatin or milk solids, and Chobani worries about customers becoming confused.
The Republican candidates, collectively and in distinctive ways, continue to cast him as the foil against whom they ran so successfully in 2010: a big-government liberal who has expanded regulations, created uncertainty for business and failed to revive the economy, with millions more Americans out of work than when he took office.
Conservatives may oppose it because it expands regulations rather than reduces them, which is at least a valid position to take, as little as consumers may agree with it.
Yet private doctors' offices that likewise offer the abortion pill are not covered by the expanded regulations, the ACLU points out in its statement.
The desperate rescue efforts of the past year make expanded regulation even more urgent.
Expanded regulation in financial services is inevitable and in some instances necessary.
But rather than expanding regulation, Congress decided to pull in the net.
Last week Robert Rubin, the former Treasury secretary, declared that Mr. Frank is right about the need for expanded regulation.
