Working as intended.
Age verification laws aren't about porn and never were. They're about instituting systems by which governments can restrict individuals' access to internet content that is not in itself illegal, and that they just don't want people to be able to see.
Of course they will.
Not to divert attention from Trump's unprecedented corruption or the utter and complete legal, moral and ethical collapse of this Supreme Court, but it's near certain that the government would grant the fossil fuel industry some sort of patently undeserved immunity no matter who was in office or on the Supreme Court.
Interfering to protect corporations from the consequences of their negligence and fraud is a long-established service of the federal government.